"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.
"It represents a real paradigm shift in neuroscience," Gallagher said. ....
"
http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home98/nov98/brain.html
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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