Friday, October 26, 2007
On the long road to recovery by Jim Totten
A tall, lean muscular man, Doug Gillis appears to be the example of perfect health.
Gillis also owns Gillis Softball Academy, a successful business in Wixom where he's comfortable talking before large groups of youth and giving them pointers about the sport he loves.
Besides an irregular heartbeat, the 42-year-old Brighton Township man never gave much thought to health issues, and didn't think he ever would until June 24, 2006.
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007
Strangers are reaping the benefit of a tragedy that hit Orewa Rotarian Rod Dennis
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Into thin air: Altitude's toll on the brain
Introduction
"The mountains," wrote climbing enthusiast Sir Francis Younghusband, "reserve their choice gifts for those who stand upon their summits." Yet those who earn these gifts pay a unique price. As neuroscientist and weekend climber R. Douglas Fields relates below, a recent study used brain scans to examine both the effects that both one-time and cumulative high-altitude climbing have on the human brain. The findings are not elevating for those of us who love to climb.
Brain Cells into Thin Air
"Mount Everest is very easy to climb, only just a little too high." - The Observer, Jan 25, 1953.
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Finding a Voice in the Face of Aphasia: Using Personal Storytelling to Reconstruct Self
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
Oliver Sacks
Oliver Wolf Sacks (born July 9, 1933, London), is a United States-based British neurologist, who has written popular books about his patients; the most famous of which is Awakenings, which was adapted into a film starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.
Sacks considers that his literary style follows the tradition of 19th-century "clinical anecdotes", a literary-style that included informal case histories, following the writings of Alexander Luria.[1] Sacks is a childhood friend of Jonathan Miller[2] and a cousin of Robert Aumann and the late Abba Eban.[3]
In 2007,[4] Columbia University appointed Sacks as "its first Columbia artist, a newly created designation." next....
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