Beatrice Hahn is a professor of medicine and microbiology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.

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David Allison of the University of Alabama at Birmingham wrote the report.

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Richard Shelton, a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral neurobiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been conducting a small study and has used ketamine this way in 16 people.

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Davis, professor of pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and associate coroner for Jefferson County, which includes the city.

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"This seemed to me a very brave, courageous decision, " especially because older people often don't recognize their own decline, said Dr. Seth Landefeld, an expert on aging and chairman of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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