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I S • I‘)_> i-1^-4 POSTER SALE January 18-23 ALL POSTERS & FINE ART PRINTS in the Book Department Reduced 20% ★ Large Selection ★ Special posters reduced up to 50% Textbooks 686-3520 • General Books 6*6-3510 • Supplies 666-4331 J 13th & Kincaid Mon-Fri 8:15-5:30 BOOKSTORE sat 10 00-3 00 Down’s children assisted When you're only two or three feet tall, people five-feet tall can be a “big" factor in your life. A University professor and a research assistant could be a very “big" factor in many chil dren's lives Marjorie Wollacott and Anne Shumway-Cook are co-direct ing research that could estab lish a more effective therapy program for children with Down's Syndrome The control group for the research consists of ten “com munity volunteers’’ between three- and five-years old Six are Down's syndrome children and 10 are children without the gen etic disorder Down's syndrome is a disease affecting hundreds of thou sands of children in the United States each year. The disease strikes in the embryonic stages of development, leaving its vic tims with learning problems, lack of muscular development and sometimes mental retarda tion The research, conducted at the University's Neuromuscular Control Laboratory, will inves tigate the activity of the body's muscular control systems in maintaining proper balance, says Wollacott. a physical education professor Wollacott and research assis tant Shumway-Cook designed and built a hydraulically con trolled platform. The platform shifts and tilts, enabling ther apists to study the movements children make to maintain their balance. Electrodes hooked to an os cilloscope (a machine designed to depict, on a screen, periodic changes in electronic quantity) allow the researchers to detect the speed at which a muscle ''fires.” the strength of the muscle’s reaction and the pat terns of activity that a group of muscles present. "We know that Down's syn drome children have develop mental delays — that is, they may not be able to sit or stand properly for six months to a year after normal children,” says Wollacott "Most researchers have observed this lack of mus cle tone and concluded that the problem lies in the muscles themselves But we think it may be due to delayed development of basic reflexes " Children experience three levels of muscular development, says Wollacott "Generally reflexes, which develop first, are very basic Pulling your hand away from a hot stove, for example, involves only the spinal cord and nerves in the arm," says Wollacott "However, the automatic re sponse system that controls balance and posture is directed by the brain and isn't fully func tional until a child is seven or eight. "The voluntary system that controls nearly every kind of movement and motion requires the brain, nerves and muscles, and it continues to develop even into adult life,” she explains Current physical therapy for Down's children uses resistive training, or making movements against a weighted force, says Shumway-Cook "This kind of training is de signed to strengthen the volun tary control system,’1 she says But Wollacott's research with normal adults has shown that any voluntary motion is preceded by a type of reflex action. Catching a ball, for in stance, requires an automatic response of muscles in the legs and calves to stabilize and prepare for the susequent mo tion involved in catching The researchers have developed their hydraulic platform to measure that au tomatic response system "This will give us a detailed picture of just how each child's automatic muscular system is behaving,” says Shumway Cook Organization honors physicist Russell Donnelly, a University physicist whose research focuses on the properties and behavior of low-temperature helium, has been elected a fel JEFF RYDER Trained in Rolfing and Aston bodywork and movement education 344-6488 HAPPY HOUR FEATURING DISCOUNTED PRICES FOR ALL DRINKS EVERY DAY 4:00-5:30 -• 22 CLUB RD. EUGENE 343-5622 low of the American Association for the Advancement of Science The 130,000-member organ ization recognized Donnelly for his "distinguished efforts on behalf of the advancement of science ' during its annual meeting earlier this month A member of the University faculty since 1966 Donnelly and his research group are studying the hydrodynamics or movement of superfluid liquid helium At about two degrees above absolute zero, the minus 460-degree temperature at which all molecular motion theoretically ceases, liquid helium undergoes a profound change in its physical proper ties A striking example is superfluidity, the ability to pass through fine channels or capil laries without friction Besides studying superfluid helium, Donnelly's group is conducting precision exper iments on how fluids become turbulent — for instance, how an eddy forms in a river The group also is examining ways to detect infrared radiation The Reagan Revolution One Year Later. 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