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Scottish television presenter and a radio D.J., who had epilepsy as a child. Mike Skinner: born 1978 Also known as The Streets, he had epilepsy between the ages of 7 and 20. [66] Geoff Rickly: born 1979 A member of the band Thursday, who discovered he had epilepsy while on tour. [67] [68] Shane Yellowbird: 1979-2022 Canadian country-music ...
Florence Griffith Joyner. Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner[4] (born Florence Delorez Griffith; [2] December 21, 1959 – September 21, 1998), also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete and the fastest woman ever recorded. She set world records in 1988 for the 100 m and 200 m. During the late 1980s, she became a popular figure ...
Henry Gustav Molaison (February 26, 1926 – December 2, 2008), known widely as H.M., was an American who had a bilateral medial temporal lobectomy to surgically resect the anterior two thirds of his hippocampi, parahippocampal cortices, entorhinal cortices, piriform cortices, and amygdalae in an attempt to cure his epilepsy.
Katie Olivia Hopkins (born 13 February 1975) [1] [2] is an English media personality, far-right [3] political commentator, and former columnist and businesswoman. She was a contestant on the third series of the reality television show The Apprentice in 2007; following further appearances in the media, she became a columnist for British national newspapers, including The Sun (2013–2015) and ...
July 14, 2024 at 11:01 AM. Shannen Doherty and Richard Simmons Getty Images (2) Hollywood mourned the loss of five stars over a tragic July weekend. It all began on Thursday, July 11, with the ...
Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) [1] was an African-American woman [4] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line [A] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific ...
Penfield at Princeton University in 1913. Born in Spokane, Washington, on January 26, 1891, Penfield spent most of his early life in Hudson, Wisconsin. [1][3] He studied at Princeton University, where he was a member of Cap and Gown Club [4] and played on the football team. After graduation in 1913, he was hired briefly as the team coach.
Roger Wolcott Sperry (August 20, 1913 – April 17, 1994) was an American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist, cognitive neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate who, together with David Hunter Hubel [1] and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work with split-brain research. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11 ...