He holds academic appointments with the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and the Emory Center for Injury Control.

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The NYU system also includes the Tisch Hospital, the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, and the Hospital for Joint Diseases.

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Doctors who specialize in rehabilitation medicine can evaluate patients for fatigue, pain, anemia and decreased endurance that result from chemotherapy, radiation and surgery.

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Dr. Sarno, a retired professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine, now in his nineties, began practicing medicine in the 1950s.

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Julie Silver, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and expert in rehabilitation medicine, developed STAR after her own treatment for breast cancer, which she says left her too sick to care for her family or return to work.

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The statement said the merger might reduce the hospitals' incentives to improve the quality of specialist services, which include rheumatology, rehabilitation, general medicine, general surgery, geriatric medicine, dermatology, clinical haematology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, cardiology and palliative medicine.

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Barry, a retired NASA astronaut and physical medicine and rehabilitation physician, who was not involved with this study.

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"In our everyday lives, there are snippets of info coming in all at once, and we integrate multiple things that are going on at the same time, " said Dr. Ross Zafonte, chairman of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School.

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Dr Daniel Hier, of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, believes the research has implications for rehabilitation strategies.

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