Figuring the brain's capability could be applied to a kid on the autism spectrum, O'Dell began to tutor Jacob ten hours a day at their home in Rabun Gap, Ga.

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Its owner, Bill O'Donnell, started Miraval ten years ago (Sierra Tucson is now at another location).

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According to a study carried out by Dr Landau, in co-operation with Marc Parmentier at the Free University of Brussels, and Stephen O'Brien at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland, roughly one in every ten Caucasians carries it, although it is strangely absent in African and Asian populations.

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At one end of it sits O'Dell's 14-year-old son, Jacob, who ten years ago doctors diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder.

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