Word: retraining
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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There, Dr. Sidney Cohen reports, innumerable drug treatments seem to have made no difference to Hewitt, now 30, and neither do efforts to retrain him. He can remember nothing of the recent past, but "his recall of the ancient material learned during his youth is phenomenal." He can sing ballads popular 20 years ago, recite the Gettysburg Address, play checkers and do grade-school arithmetic. He can name the first but not the present President of the U.S. Hewitt's overall I.Q. has gone up from 52 after the injury to 71, but nearly all the gain is from...