October 21
Schizophrenia affects about 1 percent of the world’s population, but currently researchers do not know what causes the disease or how to cure it. Lorna Role, professor and chair of the department of neurobiology and behavior at Stony Brook University, is hoping to uncover this mystery. During the Washington University Neuroscience Colloquium, Role will describe her work on neuregulin-1, a key gene implicated in the disease’s progression.
St. Louis, Mo.
http://neuroscienceresearch.wustl.edu/Pages/NeuroscienceColloquium.aspx

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1. 1. kimgyr 09:42 PM 9/6/11

   In the Mind area, I would like to contribute ideas for treatments for those who experience brain anoxia as a result of strokes, cardiac arrests, etc.! My heart stopped for 10 minutes while I was having my forehead sutured under a general anesthetic after a car accident in Kenya, leaving me without the abilities to walk, speak, remember, and all the other skills that we learn as infants - and I was very very surprised to learn that remembering is a skill that we learn!
   
   I staggered, walked and jogged the 3.6 miles home from my first job 92 times as recorded in the diary that I kept to improve my short-term memory and, within 15 months, had covered more than 330 miles and regained most of the abilities that I had lost!
   
   More importantly, my mind raced to fill the empty spaces in my knowledge that had been created by the accident, and I began to imagine the design of a human world that would no longer depend upon petroleum for the provision of energy, food and transportation. Please see those designs on my website at www.greenmillennium.eu It was finding a design problem that seemed then, and still seems now, to be critical to the survival of the human race that propelled me forward out of my disabilities!
   
   Perhaps this experience can be used to assist others who suffer similar disabilities?
   
   Thank you very much for your time!
   
   Kim Gyr
   Director, Green Millennium

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