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...least, awfully hard to explain. In a species as hungry for social interaction as ours, a trait that causes some individuals to shrink from the group ought to have been snuffed out pretty early on. Yet shyness is commonplace. "I think of shyness as one end of the normal range of human temperament," says professor of pediatrics William Gardner of Ohio State University...
...normal for the scientist feels decidedly less so for the painfully shy struggling merely to get by, and that's got a lot of researchers looking into the phenomenon. What determines who's going to be shy and who's not? What can be done to treat the problem? Just as important, is it a problem at all? Are there canny advantages to being socially averse that the extroverts among us never see? With the help of behavioral studies, brain scans and even genetic tests, researchers are at last answering some of those questions, coming to understand what a complex...
...vegetative state but who don't show consistent evidence of awareness. For example, they may indicate yes-or-no responses even if they aren't accurate. (Schiavo's parents have argued that their daughter is minimally conscious.) A recent study using specialized brain scans found near normal activity levels in the cortical language centers of some such patients when their loved ones spoke to them, indicating they may retain the potential for cognitive function. Patients in a minimally conscious state are also more likely to improve and benefit from therapy than those in a vegetative state...
ERICA: She never spoke about it. She just sat down at 19 and wrote Normal Girl [a novel]. What always amazed me, because I've done some guest teaching for some writers, is that the hardest thing for any young writer is to get her voice into her work, and Molly seemed to have that from the beginning...
...Lake; he just ended up there. His earlier years were spent in Minneapolis, about 250 miles to the south. His family moved often between the city's suburbs, and for a year they lived in a rented mobile home behind a pickle factory. "He seemed like a normal kid to me, except that he liked to be alone," says Patrick Tahahwah, a family member who lived two doors down from Weise when the boy was 7. In 1997, his father committed suicide. In 1999, his mother was in a car accident that led to major brain damage. Weise was then...