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Memory Loss In Old Age No Longer

Ken Collins KPaulC at email.msn.com
Tue Jul 27 12:09:37 EST 1999


saw this Wonderfully-enlightening stuff in the _New York Times_, today
[Tue., 27Jul99] "two".

wasn't Eccles from Austrailia?

kind of a big step down, no?

K. P. COLLINS

John wrote in message <933071831.773052 at server.australia.net.au>...
>"While the brain demonstrates a remarkable ability to compensate for those
>losses--forestalling any noticeable effect until the losses become, she
>said, "very, very profound"-- it now appears that even those neuron losses
>that do occur are confined to populations of cells that may not play any
>significant role in memory.
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>"It represents a real paradigm shift in neuroscience," Gallagher said. ....
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>http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home98/nov98/brain.html
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>All these paradigm shifts. Is everybody looking for a Kuhnian 'revolution'?
>Until hitting the Internet I never realised there were so many people out
>there trying to revolutionise the world. I grow old I grow old I aint
>wearing the bottom of my trousers rolled and I'll shoot the first mermaid
>that sings to me.
>
>John
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