Keeping our emotional brains and our intellectual brains in balance in the face of such a tragedy is difficult – but important.
The problem has become so acute that policymakers have coined a specific term for this phenomenon of squandered immigrant intellectual talent: brain waste.
Add some other useful ingredients: an astute, rather than intellectual, political brain; physical stamina; and, just as important, a media-appealing wife Susan Molinari, a fellow New York representative who is about to leave Congress (he proposed to her on bended knee in the House during a numbing budget debate in 1993) for a career as a television anchorwoman.
Specific language impairment (SLI) is a persistent developmental disorder that affects language development and is not secondary to intellectual impairment, brain damage, sensorial or psychiatric problems (Stark and Tallal 1981).
However, mouse and zebrafish studies of RERE suggest that it may play a role in several 1p36 deletion-related phenotypes, including short stature, developmental delay, intellectual disability, brain anomalies, vision problems, hearing loss, renal anomalies, congenital heart defects, and cardiomyopathy.
Children with intellectual disabilities, brain damage and consequent neuropsychiatric morbidities, and epilepsy which are more common in LAMIC like India are more likely to be represented in the community sample than the school based sample [ 88].
These include slow growth, developmental delays (both physical and intellectual), reduced brain size, low birth weight, and a variety of behavioral and intellectual disabilities, including learning and memory deficits, sleep difficulties, impulse control problems, and reduced executive function (Hanson et al. 1976; Streissguth et al. 1980, 2004; Colangelo and Jones 1982; Kodituwakku 2007).
Autosomal-recessive primary microcephaly (MCPH) is a rare congenital disorder characterized by intellectual disability, reduced brain and head size, but usually without defects in cerebral cortical architecture, and other syndromic abnormalities.
It's like a solar system of odd planets, with free traders and Main Street, evangelicals, corporatists, Wall Street and neoconservative intellectuals (the brains of the so-called war party) who've prodded the nation into wars.
