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Unit 7 Overview In this unit you will :? Know about researches on the causes of Mozarts deaths Take a test on fast reading Learn some latest discoveries on attention processing Read another story about cloning D. Discussing the following topics. 1. How does Faith Fitzgerald analyze the cause of Mozarts death? What means does she resort to? What conclusion does she come at? 答案 Without modern technology, Faith Fitzgerald analyzes the cause of Mozarts death mainly by means of deductive reas oning. She attributes the symptom of anasarca to three causes： liver disease, kidney disease, and congestive heart failure. When the former two causes are ruled off, she considers an epidemic fever that rampaged Vienna at the time of Mozarts death. She concludes that Mozart died of congestive heart failure brought on by rheumatic fever. 2. What do you think of the historical clinical pathology conference? 答案 The conference has resolved the mysteries of many great peoples deaths such as Mozart, Edgar Allen Poe, and Alexander the Great. From the text we can see that the conference is not only interesting? but useful for the doctors-in-training. The conference? lecturers do not resort to modern lab technologies, but use the traditional way of deduction and pay attention to all symptoms. The scientific methods involved in the analysis help the doctors-in-training keep alert to all the possibilities and make the right diagnosis. TEXT 2 B. Topics for discussion. 1. What role can drug-detector dogs play in neurobiology? 答案 Drug-detector dogs can help neurobiologists to understand the brain mechanisms called attention processing, which determines what a person pays attention to and for how long. They could even help to identify some of the many genes that underlie attentional processing. At the same time, they help them to understand and deal with the problems such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in human beings. 2. Whats the significance of the prefrontal cortex to an ani