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Bases of Inductions of Recoveries and Protections from Amnesias

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In 1987, I celebrated my 40th anniversary as a student of inductions of recoveries of functions after injuries to the central nervous system. I think I know a fair amount about it. At least I have had a lot of practice with the subject and have only infrequently succumbed to temptations to give it up and study something else. I believe that I have come to some significant conclusions and propose in this discussion to say what they were and how they were finally arrived at. Then I contrast them with the views of other workers in our vineyard and do that by giving my reactions to statements that were made in a recent review of research on the neural mechanisms of memory.

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    Stanley Finger

  2. The Brain Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695-7801, USA

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  3. Programs in Occupational Therapy and Neural Sciences, Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Preventive Medicine, and Psychology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 63110, USA

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Meyer, D.R. (1988). Bases of Inductions of Recoveries and Protections from Amnesias. In: Finger, S., Levere, T.E., Almli, C.R., Stein, D.G. (eds) Brain Injury and Recovery. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0941-3_3

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