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Memory Loss In Old Age No Longer

Ken Collins KPaulC at email.msn.com
Tue Jul 27 12:38:55 EST 1999


"always wanted to know what happened after the end of _Three Days of the
Condor_."

i've Known for about a month.

K. P. Collins

Ken Collins wrote in message <#Kl9PLF2#GA.210 at cpmsnbbsa03>...
>saw this Wonderfully-enlightening stuff in the _New York Times_, today
>[Tue., 27Jul99] "two".
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>wasn't Eccles from Austrailia?
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>kind of a big step down, no?
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>K. P. COLLINS
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>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
>>Remove XXXX in reply address
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