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Q:

No, perhaps you can just give me the theme.

Lasker:

Well, one is for the development of a scanner of the brain which shows clearly how the brain metabolizes glucose and other brain foods. And it also shows defects in the brain clearly. You can see the defect of epilepsy. You see the foci that cause epilepsy, and you can even remove the foci if it's serious enough that you should have a brain operation. You can do it. They know where the foci are. It's a scanner which needs a cyclotron in association with it, so it's really a research tool now, and my prayer is that somebody reading about this, if we're successful in publicizing it, will think up how to do it so that it won't be too complex or too expensive and that people throughout the world will have precise diagnoses of nerological problems. It shows different kinds of schizophrenia. Isn't that fantastic?

Q:

It is.

Lasker:

And so tomorrow we're having a lunch for the man that did it in order to try and get the right slants on it in order to publicize it accurately and try and inspire people all over the world, if we can, say it simply enough, so that there will be new developments and it will be widely used, just as the cat scanner is now -- very expensive still. So that's exciting.





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