Sunday, March 06, 2005
Meet the fMRI "Crew"
Tonsillectomy research advocacy will bring you to some of the brightest minds in science. I plan to present to you, one by one, all the outstanding scientists that I've "met" in my quest to spur scientific research into the long-term effects of tonsillectomies and in my quest to have science discover that lymph adds power to the nervous system and supports the brain making it more stable, happier, put-together and healthier overall.
Here's the list, in alphabetical order, and with sketchy details, of the first batch I've worked on:
Jonathan D. Cohen, Director, Center for the Study of the Mind and the Brain, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ: While Dr. Cohen is on sabbatical, someone else handled my email - I think my best route here is to recruit interested and somewhat renegade students to use tonsillectomies as research criteria!
Eric Connor, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD: I think my written eloquence fluctuates sometimes, the email I sent Dr. Connor is one of the best I've created putting "fingers to keyboard" rather than pen to paper! Yet, I think Dr. Connor's lab may not be set up for the kind of research I wrote to him about... dead end? Nah, I'm going to ask him if he knows someone else @ Hopkins who may be set up to run tests on tonsillectomized folks...
Lutz Jaencke, Germany: Has shown great kindness when replying to my inquiry. An email I wrote to him equated researching lymph beyond immunology to declaring the earth is round when everyone else considered it flat!
Wolf Singer, Director, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Germany: We are talking neurological research royalty here, wish me luck not getting bounced out of the virtual door!
Thomas Metzinger, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Germany: Same as above
Filippi Massimo, Italy: Dr. Massimo "heard" my request and asked me to be patient, it takes time to make things happen in science.
Osaka, Japan: Dr. Osaka utlized fMRI technology to publish a paper which I am having trouble finding for you right this minute but which I hope to find eventually to quote for you!
Whew! If any of you would like to volunteer to lobby these or any other scientists, let me know!
Here's the list, in alphabetical order, and with sketchy details, of the first batch I've worked on:
Jonathan D. Cohen, Director, Center for the Study of the Mind and the Brain, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ: While Dr. Cohen is on sabbatical, someone else handled my email - I think my best route here is to recruit interested and somewhat renegade students to use tonsillectomies as research criteria!
Eric Connor, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD: I think my written eloquence fluctuates sometimes, the email I sent Dr. Connor is one of the best I've created putting "fingers to keyboard" rather than pen to paper! Yet, I think Dr. Connor's lab may not be set up for the kind of research I wrote to him about... dead end? Nah, I'm going to ask him if he knows someone else @ Hopkins who may be set up to run tests on tonsillectomized folks...
Lutz Jaencke, Germany: Has shown great kindness when replying to my inquiry. An email I wrote to him equated researching lymph beyond immunology to declaring the earth is round when everyone else considered it flat!
Wolf Singer, Director, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Germany: We are talking neurological research royalty here, wish me luck not getting bounced out of the virtual door!
Thomas Metzinger, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Germany: Same as above
Filippi Massimo, Italy: Dr. Massimo "heard" my request and asked me to be patient, it takes time to make things happen in science.
Osaka, Japan: Dr. Osaka utlized fMRI technology to publish a paper which I am having trouble finding for you right this minute but which I hope to find eventually to quote for you!
Whew! If any of you would like to volunteer to lobby these or any other scientists, let me know!
