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Biotech / Medical : Gliatech (GLIA) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: scaram(o)uche who wrote (900)	8/10/1999 9:28:00 PM
From: alexis s	Respond to of 2001

Rick, thanks for your references. I'm back in town; I need some translation, also. I get pretty lost trying to keep track of all the zillions of strands of interactions. (Seems like I remember Oxytocin is also involved in female orgasm.) We have to study one small area to make it manageable, but there are so many complicating interactions that it's virtually impossible to say what's really going on. I guess I'm getting off-topic, pardon me. But I'm sure this is why people take all the intellectual short-cuts, specifically in medicine / biotech (e.g. people mythologize everything; a good story sells; my father says 'why should I get a second opinion; how would I decide if the doctors disagreed?) I have been told that a reasonable chess player can hold in mind 3 or 4 possible chains of moves 3 or 4 moves out... The interactions in the brain (and other cells) seem to dwarf that level of complexity very quickly. Know any companies involved in research in neuro-psycho-immunology? I really appreciate having scientists as well as people who know about finances on these threads. Alexis