John W. Olney (* 23 October 1931 in Marathon, Iowa) is an US-American neurologist and Psychopathologe. Since 1977 he is a professor for neurology and Psychopathologie at the medical university of Washington. It is member of many scientific combinations so also that national Academy OF Sciences and carrier of scientific honours.

Work

Admits became Olney among other things by its research over brain damages by Glutamat, Aspartam and Cysteinen. However its publications about Aspartam (a sweet means wide-spread in the products of the foodstuffs industry) cover 34 different studies, it were on over 80 studies for the investigation of Glutamat involved, of it many responsible. Altogether approximately 500 publications are well-known. Many of its studies were published also in the prominent scientific newspapers in the USA and GB (Science, Nature.).1996 published Olney JW, Farber NB, pointed nail E as well as Robins LN a study with the title: The brain tumor rates, does give did it rise a relationship with , which excited large attention in Europe.

Olneys lesions

Olneys lesions are brain damage, which is caused by neurotoxic doses of nonkompetitiv working NMDA antagonists (channel blockers), from whom some admits are as drugs from the class of the Dissoziativa.

In appropriate bioassays Olney discovered small cavities and/or injuries (lesions) primarily in the brain regions Posterior Cingulate Cortex and Retrosplenial Cortex (German

An appropriate toxic effect is obvious, due to empiric reports, which learning and memory disturbances to e.g. describe. However the neurowissenschftliche human research - and thus the sound proof - in this connection remains in principle a difficult venture, since borders are set to their goal-prominent feasibility, more ethicalally and due to its instrumental nature.

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