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Silver Spring Monkeys
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Silver Spring Monkeys
A colony of primates used by a grant-funded psychologist for research on stroke rehabilitation, which required total denervation, performed on the monkeys by dorsal rhizotomy


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Adrianne McCullars, Christi Perkins, Lynne Gauthier, Victor Mark, Edward Taub, and Gitendra Uswatte.
Study coauthor Edward Taub of the University of Alabama in Birmingham had previously directed brain-imaging studies in small groups of stroke patients and in monkeys with experimentally severed arm nerves.
Edward Taub, MD, a neurologist at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, and his staff have found that by immobilizing the unaffected arm for a strict regimen of six hours a day and at least two weeks straight, the brain can relearn to use the affected arm.
 
 
 
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