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helonious Monk, and I haven't heard anybody yet who has come after him." Born in Chicago in 1940, Herbie was a child piano prodigy who performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11. He began playing jazz in high school, initially influenced by Oscar Peterson and Bil

here he heads USC's Brain and Creativity Institute. Prior to taking up his posts at USC, in zoos, Damasio was M.W. Van Allen Professor and Head of Neurology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics from 1976 to zoos. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute. Damasio is the author of se

ned an M.D. and Ph.D. in Neuroanatomy and Computer Science from Georgetown University in 1977. Following an internship at Georgetown, he completed Neurology and Nuclear Medicine training at UCLA and joined the faculty here in 1983. Dr. Mazziotta chairs one of the nation's largest Neurology departments,

. The results of experiments with chicks and rats indicate they are not specific to humans. For example, Sutoo and Akiyama69 played the Ada- gio by Mozart (IC 205) repeatedly to spontaneously hypertensive rats for 2 hours on 3 consecutive nights at 65 to 75 dB SPL. The rats' blood pressure as well as

-216. 77. Larsson BA. Pain management in neonates. Acta Paediatr. 1999;88(12):1301.1310. Bios Mark Jude Tramo, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor in Neurology & Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the David Geffen School of Medicine & Herb Alpert School of Music. UCLA; Medical Director of Neuro- logical & Reha

se are the thoughts we would most like to study. It might be that computers are not yet powerful enough, and in another few years they will be giving Mozart a run for his money. But there may also be a fundamental difference which renders them incapable of this sort of thinking. This is the crux of the mo

ar objects, including his own wife! He had a perfectly loving relationship with her but simply could not name her from a picture. Sachs, Professor of Neurology at New York University School of Medicine, provides many such fascinating stories, along with their medical backgrounds. The fruit and vegetable cas