When I showed the descriptions of the Milligan EEGs to a registered EEG technologist, he assured me that they seemed to be describing two different people. I believe it is consistent with the results of the research done in this area to suggest that the EEGs done at Harding Hospital were actually administered to different personalities—probably the children.

In discussing the significance of the new research Dr. Putnam said, “The study of multiple personalities has something to offer the rest of us in terms of control of the mind and the body. I think multiples may, in fact, be one of those experiments of nature that will tell us a whole lot more about ourselves …”

July 20, 1982 Athens, Ohio

DANIEL KEYES (New York, 1927 - Florida, 2014), was an American writer. Worked for horror and science fiction comics.

Keyes won the Hugo Award in 1959 and the Nebula Award in 1966 for his novel Flowers of Algernon. The novel has been adapted several times for other media, most prominently as the 1968 film Charly, starring Cliff Robertson (who won an Academy Award for Best Actor) and Claire Bloom.