Werner Syndrome
Psychology 261
Instructor: Ms Anne Thomas, M.A.
October 5, 2000
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Imagine in your early adolescents being diagnosed with a disease that increases your aging. Doctors tell you that there is no known cure and that you will die by the age of fifty. There is a disease that increases your aging, that disease is known as Werner Syndrome. A medical student named Carl Wilhelm Otto Werner (1879-1936) first diagnosed this syndrome in 1905.
The University of Kiel …
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…Syndrome .Schellenberg states, “When you see something go wrong then you’ve got a handle on when things go right.
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