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Special “News You Can Use” Insert 4 'MOTORCYCLE DIARIES' WRITER TO SPEAK 5 CELEBRATE UNITY MONTH 7 NEW LAB TO ENHANCE LEARNING ENovember 5, m2007 / volume 60,o number 10ry Reportwww.emory.edu/EMORY _RE PORT HALLEINSTITUTE In the spirit of Halloween ‘Cartooning for Peace’ features Senior Stephanie LaPointe wasn’t afraid to wear a costume to international editorial cartoonists campus. The Student Government Associa- tion, University Senate, Employee Council and Emory Alumni As- sociation organized a Halloween-themed Wonderful Wednesday celebration to foster community spirit. Uni- versity Senate presi- dent Nadine Kaslow says that campus governance groups plan to collaborate on more events like this. See story on p. 5. Bryan Meltz Bryan SCHOLARSHIP&RESEARCH ‘Sleeping Beauty’ case awakens hopes for disorder BY CAROL CLARK disorders. Her research at Emory has made significant contributions to understand- t was the most baffling case ing the important connections that Kathy Parker, an between sleep, health and French editorial cartoonist Plantu, the visionary behind “Cartooning for Peace,” will be among the car- Iexpert in sleep disorders, illness. toonists from around the world who will speak at Emory on the power of cartoons. had ever encountered. Anna, a The Emory team that 32-year-old attorney, came to worked on Anna’s case BY ALMA FREEMAN “Cartooning for Peace” is Liberation Organization had the Emory Healthcare Sleep included specialists from the brainchild of Plantu, the been affixed to the same Program in June of 2005 neurology, pharmacology, French daily newspaper Le document prior to the 1993 because her excessive need for anesthesiology and nursing. A Oslo Accords. “Since that sleep — as many as 57 hours battery of tests ruled out artoons make us laugh. Monde’s editorial cartoonist. “ at a stretch — had put her narcolepsy, one of the most Without them, our lives The idea for the project was time, I have thought a great career, and her life, on hold. well-known sleep disorders, as would be much sad- born in 1991 when Plantu deal about the role of news- C met former Palestinian leader paper cartoonists,” Plantu “She reported that she the cause of Anna’s excessive der. But they are no laughing craved sleep,” said Parker, sleeping. She was given an matter: they have the power Yasser Arafat, who drew said. co-director of the Emory initial diagnosis of “idiopathic to inform, and also to offend,” the Star of David for one of Plantu once again real- Healthcare Sleep Program. “In hypersomnia,” the term used said former United Nations Plantu’s drawings and signed ized the power cartoons hold it. when the world erupted 15 years, I have never had a “when we really don’t know Secretary-General Kofi Annan patient tell me that. They’ll say, what the issue is,” Parker said. at the inaugural “Cartoon- “At that time, Yasser in anger last year over the Arafat could not say, ‘I recog- publication of caricatures ‘I can’t stay awake,’ or ‘I “Our ‘sleep’ and ‘awake’ ing for Peace” seminar at the struggle to stay awake,’ but brain mechanisms are very United Nations headquarters nize the State of Israel,’ and of the Prophet Muhammad. Anna described it as this crazy complex,” she added, explain- in October 2006. yet, with a blue felt-tip pen he As a forum for such debate, compulsion to sleep.” ing that the sleep-wake cycle In order to further explore drew the Star of David on the “Cartooning for Peace” Parker enlisted an inter- is controlled by nerve-signal- the power of cartoons, The Israeli flag,” said Plantu. The launched that same year disciplinary team of Emory ing chemicals called neu- Claus M. Halle Institute for following year, Plantu trav- with a seminar featuring scientists to investigate Anna’s rotransmitters. Some neu- Global Learning hosts 10 edi- eled to Israel and convinced opening remarks by Annan case. The team not only rotransmitters are associated torial cartoonists from around then Israeli Minister of For- and an exhibition of car- diagnosed the rare condition with alertness and wakeful- the world who will be on eign Affairs Shimon Peres to toons, co-sponsored by The that Anna is suffering from ness, while others are linked campus Nov. 12–15 to engage sign the same drawing. It was Halle Institute, at the U.N. — endozepine-induced to calmness and sleep. with students, faculty and the the first time that signatures recurrent stupor — they are The Emory team first community for “Cartooning from both the Israeli gov- developing what may be the tried activating Anna’s for Peace.” ernment and the Palestine See CARTOONING on page 7 first-ever treatment for the “awake” neurotransmitters, by devastating illness. giving her powerful stimulants “We have a sleeping such as Dextroamphetamine. CAMPUSNEWS beauty here. She can’t stay “She continued to sleep awake for more than six hours. through everything,” Parker She can’t go out on a date. She said. Ashrawi urges more efforts had to take leave from her job,” They weaned her off the said Parker, describing her drugs and conducted a spinal for Palestinian-Israeli peace hopes that the treatment trial, tap to analyze her cerebral which will likely begin in spinal fluid. That led to the December, will transform diagnosis of endozepine- BY CAROL CLARK two-state solution in Palestine for peace. Anna’s life and lead to help for induced recurrent stupor — a is still possible. We are the Peace should not be others as well. condition so rare that only 31 die-hards.” viewed as “an occasional cases have been confirmed in A scholar and political endeavor that we pursue Parker presented the findings of Anna’s case on the world. as peace between leader who has served several when things are easy, or Endozepine is an enzyme Israelis and Palestinians times on the Palestinian Leg- Oct. 30, as the featured when it’s fashionable or associated with the gamma- become too ambitious islative Council, Ashrawi is speaker for the ninth annual H acceptable, and we drop it aminobutyric acid receptor a goal? the founder and chair of the Mary Lynn Morgan Lecture when conditions become too (GABA), one of the neu- Although the picture looks Palestinian Initiative for the for Women in the Health tough. It’s a constant value rotransmitters that helps settle increasingly bleak, Hanan Promotion of Global Dialogue Professions. Parker is Edith F. and, therefore, a constant the brain down for sleep. Ashrawi said she still believes and Democracy. In her Oct. 29 Honeycutt Professor in the objective and worth pursu- The cause of endozepine- in the cause. “I belong to a talk at Emory, Ashrawi said Nell Hodgson Woodruff ing,” she said. induced recurrent stupor is not rapidly diminishing minority that the deteriorating condi- School of Nursing and one of — those who still believe in a tions on the ground are no five nurses in the nation peaceful resolution and that a excuse for abandoning efforts See ASHRAWI on page 4 certified in clinical sleep See SL ee PING B E AUTY on page 5 2 November 5, 2007 Emory Report AROUNDCAMPUS FIRSTPERSON LISA NEWBERN AROUNDCAMPUS Renowned researcher to Culinary revolution leader present McCormick Lecture Emory helps new moms get comfortable Alice Waters to lecture Hector DeLuca, widely rec- Alice Waters, a leading voice ognized as the world’s leading continued support from Crown, in the revolution in American expert on vitamin D structure Carini and others involved cuisine toward fresh, local food, and function, will deliver with the PCSW — the commit- will present a lecture, “Know- the 2007 annual Donald B. ment to moms returning to ing Our Food: Science, Policy McCormick Lecture. The lecture work has never been stronger. and Student Health,” Wednes- will take place Thursday, Nov. 8, This brings me to how each day, Nov. 14 at 4 p.m. at the at 4 p.m. in the School of Medi- of you reading this article can Global Communications Center cine Education Building, Room help. Let me start by arming Auditorium, Centers for Disease 130, followed by a reception. you with some breastfeeding Control, 1600 Clifton Rd., In his talk, titled “The facts. According to the Ameri- Building 19. Functions and Mechanisms can Academy of Pediatrics Waters is the executive of Vitamin D,” DeLuca will Work Group on Breastfeeding, chef and owner of Chez Panisse describe the molecular and “Human milk is uniquely restaurant in Berkeley, Calif. physiologic basis for the vita- superior for infant feeding; all The author of nine books, min D endocrine system and its substitute feeding options including most recently “The Art application in understanding, differ markedly from it.” The of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, preventing and treating human National Healthy Mothers, and Recipes from a Delicious disease. Healthy Babies Coalition Revolution,” Waters is the As the Steenbock Research offers: “Breastfeeding support founder of the Edible School- Professor in the Department of Meltz Bryan at the workplace can positively yard program and the Chez Biochemistry at the University Panisse Foundation. Sponsored Lisa Newbern, junior chair-elect of the President’s Commis- impact the bottom line by of Wisconsin-Madison, DeLuca, lowering health care costs, by Emory’s Sustainable Food along with his colleagues, has sion on the Status of Women, spearheaded a collaborative Initiative, the National Center effort to provide new mothers with private, safe and ac- enhancing productivity, made groundbreaking contribu- cessible lactation facilities across campus. The Yerkes public improving employee satisfac- for Chronic Disease Preven- tions to the field of vitamin D affairs chief is pregnant with her second child, and looks tion, increasing retention and tion and Health Promotion and research.