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stem-cell treatment for,
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Pascal, Blaise,
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on immensity of universe,
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–
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,
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,
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Pascal's Wager,
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–
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,
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,
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Pasteur, Louis,
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,
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Patch clamp recording,
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Pathways,
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–
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and neural voting,
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–
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and nonspiking neurons,
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–
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Pearson, Karl,
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Pearson's correlation coefficient,
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Penfield, Wilder,
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,
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–
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Penicillin, discovery of,
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Pensées
(Pascal),
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,
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Perception

association in,
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(
see also
Association)

through collection of specific functions,
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–
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hierarchical organization of,
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–
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,
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–
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and neural code,
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–
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“grandmother cell” theory of,
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machines incapable of (Leibniz),
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memory compared with,
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and MTL,
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neuron functions in,
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Plato on (wax metaphor),
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spiking provides picture of,
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Perceptron,
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,
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,
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,
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Peripheral nervous system (PNS),
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Peters' Rule,
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Phantom limb,
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,
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–
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and rewiring,
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Phaedrus
(Plato),
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Pharmaceutical industry

and drug development,
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as Ehrlich's invention,
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Phencyclidine (PCP),
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Phenothiazines,
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,
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Pheromone,
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London,
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Photoreceptors,
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,
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–
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Phrenological map,
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Phrenology and phrenologists,
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,
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,
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,
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and factory analogy,
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need to imrove on,
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and study of cortical plasticity,
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Piltdown Man,
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Plasticity,
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,
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cortical,
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“cross-modal,”
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rule of,
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–
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vs. stability,
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Plastination,
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,
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–
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Plato

carving metaphor of,
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,
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on memory,
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,
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Plum, Fred,
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Pompeii, discovery of,
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–
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Ponce de León, Juan,
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Pony Express,
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–
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Pope, Alexander,
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Porter, Keith,
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Posterior hippocampus,
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Postsynaptic density,
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Primary visual cortex (V1),
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,
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,
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Probability

and Pascal's Wager,
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–
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and rational decision-making,
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and reanimation issues,
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–
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“Problem of Serial Order in Behavior, The” (Lashley),
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Profound Hypothermia and Circulatory Arrest (PHCA) (procedure),
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Prospect of Immortality, The
(Ettinger),
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Proteins,
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,
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–
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,
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and genes,
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,
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ion channels,
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and Parkinson's disease,
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Psychosis,
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Psychosurgery,
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,
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–
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Pyramidal neuron,
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,
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–
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,
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–
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,
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Pyramidal tract,
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,
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Pyramid of Giza,
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–
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Qin Shi Huang (emperor of China),
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Rain Man
(film),
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Rakic, Pasko,
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–
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,
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Ramachandran, V. S.,
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–
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,
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Ramón y Cajal, Santiago.
See
Cajal, Santiago Ramón y

Randomness, and quantum mechanics,
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Random selection, in Rosenzweig experiment,
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Reanimation,
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,
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–
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,
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,
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Reason, limitations of,
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Receptors,
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,
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,
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–
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,
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Recognition, computers' poor performance at,
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–
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Recollection,
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,
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,
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.
See also
Memory(ies)

Reconnection,
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,
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–
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and age,
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in birds' storage of song,
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–
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and brain simulation,
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evidence for,
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,
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and memory,
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–
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molecular interventions for,
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and reweighting,
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,
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,
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–
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,
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and rewiring,
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and sparse connectivity,
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in treatment,
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Redwood trees, neurons compared to,
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Regeneration,
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,
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–
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,
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,
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,
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and birds' song storage,
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and brain simulation,
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molecular interventions for,
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as treatment,
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–
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Regeneration denial,
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Regional connections,
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–
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,
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,
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,
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Regional connectome,
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,
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,
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,
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Reid, Clay,
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Reincarnation, as information transfer,
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Reiner, Rob,
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,
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Remapping of cortex,
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in absence of injury,
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deeper understanding of needed,
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and phantom limbs,
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,
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–
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,
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and rewiring,
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and rewiring,
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,
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Research environment, for technological advances,
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“Respirator brain,”
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Retina,
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classes and types of neurons in,
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,
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–
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connection between neuron classes and types in,
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–
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“Reverberating activity,”
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Reweighting of synapse,
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–
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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in birds' storage of song,
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in memory,
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–
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,
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–
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molecular interventions for,
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and reconnection,
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,
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,
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–
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,
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and stroke,
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–
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in treatment,
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Rewiring of brain,
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–
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,
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and adult brain,
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,
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and brain simulation,
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facilitated by brain injury,
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molecular interventions for,
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multiple processes in,
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and reconnection,
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and remapping,
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,
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in treatment,
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–
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in vision experiments,
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–
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,
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,
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and V1 potential,
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“Rewiring denial,”
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attacks on,
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caution over,
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qualification of,
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Rhône-Poulenc pharmaceutical company,
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,
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Rhyme on ailments and remedies (similar to Serenity Prayer),
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“Road Not Taken, The” (Frost),
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Rosenblatt, Frank,
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Rosenzweig, Mark,
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,
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–
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,
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,
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Routing,
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Royal Society of London

C. elegans
paper published by,
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and Leeuwenhoek,
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–
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Ruska, Ernst,
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Russell, Richard,
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,
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–
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Sade, Marquis de,
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Sakmann, Bert,
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Salpêtrière hospital,
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–
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SBFSEM (serial block face scanning electron microscopy),
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Schalek, Richard,
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Schizophrenia,
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,
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,
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,
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–
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,
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attempt to study in animals,
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behavioral signs of,
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cause of (genetics vs. environmental),
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as connectopathy,
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–
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,
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drugs for

antipsychotics,
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and miswiring in animal models,
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and frontal lobe,
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genetics of,
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genetic testing for,
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and genomics,
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,
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–
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lack of neuropathology in,
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,
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,
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symptoms vs. cause of,
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Schneider, Gerald,
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,
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Schumpeter, Joseph,
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Science

as collective activity,
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and negative experimental results,
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social aspect of,
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timing of discoveries in,
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visual revelations in,
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See also
Neuroscience and neuroscientists

Science fiction,
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