European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday november 11, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 life after 2000 How Well treat illness i ? demystifying the brain by Barbara s. Moffet National geographic it looks like an Ordinary microchip but in May have a me olits own. Someday it could end up inside somebody s Bias scientists torn the National Institute of mental to ally in Washington Are growing animal tissue on a Silicon Chip i Hopes that the two eventually will connect and begin to internet sometime probably Well into the next Century microchips May be implanted in human brains where they will link up with undamaged nerve cells and take Over unctions destroyed by injury or disease other medical scientists Are wrestling with an age old question can human Lile be significantly prolonged researchers on aging say that in cancer and heart ailments magically disappeared the average american lifespan would increase by Only about seven years these scientists Are trying to retard the aging process i sell extending the years of robust health toward 100. One theory is hat aging is caused by the buildup of metabolism s toxic byproducts and could be slowed by boosting the body s protective enzymes a formula for extended youth May never be found. But by 2000. Many of the human body s remaining secrets will have been unlocked. New discoveries Are occurring almost daily especially in molecular biology the study of the body s functions at the Basic genetic level. The advances will make today s Medicine look primitive. Technology some of it extremely costly to operate will produce unprecedented tools Lor diagnosing and treating disease. New body scanner especially the magnetic resonance image will produce photograph like pictures that reveal Lar More than today s cat scanners without using radiation. Tiny pumps implanted in the body will take Over for ailing organs shooting out insulin Lor a malfunctioning pancreas Lor example. Lasers will take Over most work now done by scalpels perhaps even making coronary bypass surgery obsolete. Robots Wilt work alongside some surgeons. For certain functions robots will be More accurate than people and they la take care of repetitive tasks too such As suction and says t. Donlin Long chairman of neurosurgery it the Johns Hopkins University medical school Telnet radiology will convert future Accident victims a rays to digits and Send them by Telephone to specialists Lor instant analysis. Doctors will turn to computer terminals not Musty books Lor guidance on symptoms treatments and prescriptions. One Futurist predicts i hat within 50 years Many doctors will to replaced by technicians operating Well programmed computers. Man while. Health specialists say. More physicians will Cense being repairmen. By 2000. Americans May spend is much Lime and Money on prevention of illness As on treatment and look to changes in lifestyle not technology Lor thei. A Ell being we have it within our selves to control our cardiac Onyo or. Robert i. Levy of Columbia us verily. He believes that education about smoking and diet especially Cho Emory will help bring heart disease Down As the nation s no i cause of death within 15 to 20 years. A new generation of drugs will aim at preventing and curing disease rather than treating symptoms. Made More by biologists and computer scientists than chemists these drugs win be cloned irom the body s own genes hormones and enzymes and will mimic nature to cure ills. The next Century also will see a new wave of vaccines to prevent such illnesses As chickenpox. Malaria and hepatitis and even tooth decay. Al nit which cause a Range of illnesses including the common cold herpes and aids will remain a Challenge. Although researchers recently described for the first time the Complex architecture of a human cold virus they re a Long Way torn developing a vaccine for virus related diseases areas of medical research with great significance Lor the future include the brain and genetics. As heart disease and cancer become More treatable the major american health problem Over the next 50 years will be degenerative diseases of the says or. Richard Jed Wyatt chief of Al the National Institute of mental health. Some experts expect cases of alzheimer s disease a Type of dementia to triple in the next 75 years As the population Ages. But an explosion of research on the brain one of the last frontiers of medical science will Oiler eventual cures Lor some of today s most Leared disorders. For example a recent discovery that the brain has at least 50 and perhaps hundreds of neurotransmitters Bombeck National to graphic Polo 77i� brain theft up in flail on a to Tanner that May a a key in charting Dilfia. Chemicals that direct much of its function probably will Lead to new treatments or cures Lor Parkinson s disease epilepsy schizophrenia chronic pain and even alzheimer s. The working of the mind once thought intangible and invisible will be traced with new scanners. We re in the process of demystifying the brain. By the year 2000 we May know exactly what is happening say. In my brain while i m talking to says or. Katherine Bick Deputy director of the National Institute of neurological and communicative disorders and stroke. Future drus will literally refresh our memories. " using certain drugs we now can make animals remember better and i believe that before Long Well help humans with memory forecasts or. James l. Mcgaugh. Director of the Center for the neurobiology of learning at the University of California. Irvine. Several . Drug manufacturers already Are researching these cognitive t Kettle. Here is no delicate Way to say it. My social Lile is somewhere to the right of a sedated parakeet. It happens. The Zelda and f. Scott fitzgeralds of their time who vowed 36 years ago to let the Good times Roll have turned into a and a during the last 20 years it has been an Uphill fight to gel my husband out of his running shoes and into hard solos. This Madcap who used to Bounce around a dance floor like a pm Pong Ball and have confetti in his Bathrobe pocket is now reduced to a to Remote switch and deep breathing by 9 . Most of the time women Are the social animals who plan dinners and movie dates buy season tickets to concerts organize Bowling and Tennis games and keep them on the move. Then one Day the non social Ani males become militant. They rebel. Are we going out again i feel like i m on a tread Mill. How do you expect me to work every Day and keep up this Pace All night Don t you Ever get the desire to just stay Al Home and relax i suppose next month you la want to go out again for me in gels tougher and tougher to sell my Hus band on a social Outing. He s at that Lime of his Lile where his heart will take no surprises. If it s a movie he wants to know if he s going to like it. If it s a party he wants to know when we re coming Home. If it s a game he wants to know if the score is going to be close. If it s a lecture he wants to know if it s Worth staying awake for. Ii i mislead him. I am held personally responsible and Points Are mentally racked up against me. They say you can always Tell How exciting your life is by the hour you get into your night clothes. Sometimes we have to change our pyjamas because we dribbled our dinner onto them. I cannot Tell you the times we have said to startled guests who just drop in unexpectedly that we both have flu. The other night As i sat Needle pointing in my nest of pillows and his Recliner body was draped Over the re Cliner chair the phone rang. He jumped Back to reality and said. Who could be calling at this hour i Don t i said. He hesitated before he picked in up. They Don t Call to Tell you you be won the lottery at 8 30 Al night. It must be bad news there Are some people who Tell me i should be flattered that my husband wants to stay at Home. These Are the same unstable people who believe age has nothing whatsoever to do with the Way you feel. I always knew a Man s Home was his Castle. I just never though he d pull up the drawbridge Al 5 30 in the evening. C lot Angetti Timet Syndicate
