University Daily Kansam Friday, March 26, 1971 5 Discovery Aids Oxygen Patients Oxygen Chamber for Mice ... studied by Rasmond Mehl and Morris Fairman Bv ROSE LEE Kansan Staff Writer A pharmacologist at the U.S. Air Force's research discovery that may eventually enable patients to receive oxygen under pressure for as long as they need it. Morris D. Faiman, associate professor of pharmacology, has discovered that disulfiram, a drug used in treating lung damage and convulsions caused by over-exposure to high oxygen When a patient breathe pure oxygen at pressures higher than atmospheric, it dissolve in red blood cells and in blood plasma similar to the way in which carbon dioxide gas is released under pressure in soda pop. HIGH PRESSURE oxygenation is currently used to treat a number of diseases, including burns, burns, gas gangrene, coronary bends, strokes, sensitility and some lung and circulatory diseases. Oxygenation is also sensitive to irradiation therapy. The curing powers of pressurized oxygenation are limited, however, because of the toxic effects of the gas. Over- exposure to pure oxygen can cause convulsions, lung damage and respiratory failure if effects limit the time a patient is safely be treated in a high risk environment. "The higher the pressure, the shorter time it takes for toxicity to be cleared. We have recent interview. "We feel treatment with disulfiram will reduce." "Without disulfram, mite how signs of poisoning within the air are apparent in our atmospheres of pressure. But when treated with disulfram and exposed to oxygen at the high pressure chamber for six hours without any symptoms of oxygen toxicity. Finally, we had a second exposure to Faitman was assisted in the study by Ramond G. Meh, Iopelae graduate student. Meh laid their "stumbled" onto the ethylene shampoo and the effects of oxygen on orepinephrine and serotonin, substances found in the brain that are thought to be important for nerve transmission and may also impair social behavior such as convulsions. DISULFIRAM, because it inhibits the synthesis of penicillin, was given to rats and mice, Faihan said, to see if a decrease of insulin had occurred. the susceptibility of the animals to oxygen convulsions. Essentially Faiman and Greub norepinephrine was not important to oxygen toxicity, but the substance may be important in other types of seizures. In their study the found that disulfiram poisoning against oxygen poisoning because it prevents convulsions and lung damage. Faiman said the initial diagnosis was years ago, but since then more thorough studies of the effects of disulfiram on oxygen toxicity have been conducted. He said he had reported the findings of the study, a number of medical meetings. Students to Go On Snake Hunt Local fifth and sixth grade students will explore the world of the snake on a herpetology field trip sponsored by the Museum of Natural History Associates Program, will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The children will study the museum's herpetology ecology series and return to the museum to identify specimens and learn the habitats. "WE KNOW HIGH pressures of oxygen causes convulsions and damage but we don't know why," Faiman said. In 1985, he received about $2 million from the General Research Fund to build a high pressure chamber and conduct studies of oxygen The team has been granted a total of $75,000 by the National institutes of Health and the Life Science Medical Research Fund. The correlation between "their" alcoholism and alcoholism and between alcoholism and poisoning might give us some in terms of alcoholism," He said oxygen toxicity during space travel had not been a problem with the astronauts on 10-day voyages to the moon. Patronize Kansan Advertisers Tests Show Sense of Time Problem of Suicidal Patients It was this observation that led him to conduct experiments with 45 patients at Veteran Addiction Center in Kansas and California last summer to determine if they perceived time differently than the others. By KRISTIN GOFF Kansan Staff Writer THE PHENOMENON of perceiving time at different rates occurs to all people at some time. Neuringer said, $^a$ Suicidal persons view time differently than normal people. They see their lives "whizzing by," according to Charles Gurdon, a psychologist, psychology, who recently conducted experiments to test the way suicidal persons see time. He found, in tests, that to many patients 36 seconds seem like a fun experience; his findings may some day lead to techniques that will teach suicidal persons to play with time, to "mentally doodle," to move down the clock to a normal pace. "A suicidal person is usually crisis oriented. He feels as if things are rushing at him, as if he doesn't have time to sit back and solve problems through." Neuringer said during a recent interview. "It may seem as if time is passin' very slowly when you are particularly interesting. At another time, when you are with friends or at a party, it may seem passive very quickly." Neueringer was. But among the suicidal persons whom he tested, time was always seen as passing more quickly then it actually did. In his experiments, Neuringer asked in his patients, who had best known to him the bell for specified lengths of time—life-seconds, 60 seconds or longer. He then compared their estimates with the actual time measured on the bell. "Those asked to ring a bell for five seconds usually thought the time had elapsed after three and half seconds." "Neerugaring." The three-fifths ratio on the average held true for all time spans measured. Suicidal man had passed after only 36 seconds, had passed after only 36 seconds. THE RESULTS of these tests and slight variations of them, which involved guessing time spans while the researcher rang a bell, were compared to results of a similar age group of non-children. After comparing the group of older patients from the hospitals' geriatrics wards. It didn't appear to. According to his results, both the com- age group and the geriatrics group may well in correcting my time. DATA FROM a second part of the research project involving a group of nine students perception is currently being analyzed, Neuringer said. In this area, patients were asked to list the events that they expected to live and to categorize a number of events according to the type or fast they perceived them to be. "Since geriatrics are characterized by thinking about death as a special case, suicidal fashion, I wanted to test their time perception to see if simply thinking about death perceptions." Neuringer said. If results from these opinion surveys follow the pattern of the ringing finger experiments, suicidal pretended to feel they will die sooner, be able to accomplish fewer goals, and be more resilient to "slow" category than those tested in the comparison groups. But Neutringer is withholding any information. He says that he does feel, however, that the data from his bell ringing experiment may be correlated with dealing with suicidal patients. "UNTIL NOW the focus in dealing with suicides has been upon problems of personality and life situations. What I hope will come out of this will be a focus on training a suicidal to slow down their suicide and teach to teach him to change his rhythm or tempo. Just why the suicidal person feels time is rushing at him more than others remains a puzzle. It may be inate in some people or it may be that a person first experiences a crisis which uplifts their perception, Nedrue says. When the Need Arises, Have Your Clothing Put In TOPS Shape. Wardrobe Care Centers 1517 West 6th 1526 West 23rd If that can be done, and he beats the person who now appears to his problems in suicide, will find that he does not have the problem. But he said, "I'm not so sure it is so important to know that, as it is to know how to correct faulty perception." Science Club To Organize A group of science and engineering faculty members and students are starting an effort called "Science for the People." The purpose of "Science for the People," according to Steve Hollis, Fredonia senior, is "for scientists and technicians to organize themselves around their scientific nature of their research and skills and how these skills can better serve the people." Mar 26 Woodruff Mar 27 Dyche 7 & 9:30 p.m. $60^{\circ}$ SUA FILMS An organizational meeting for the group will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at 1406 Tennesseen in the Newsrelief office on the 3rd floor. 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