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The learned nonuse phenomenon: implications for rehabilitation.

Department of Psychology, Birmingham, AL, USA. Research on monkeys with a single forelimb from which sensation is surgically abolished demonstrates that such animals do not use their deafferented limb even though they possess sufficient motor innervation to do so, a … Continue reading

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Isoflurane therapy for severe refractory status asthmaticus in children.

This abstract is by Shankar, churchill and Deshpande, who work at the Pediatric critical care unit at the children’s hospital in Vanderbilt, Tennessee. The pubmed number is 16614808. OBJECTIVE: To describe the use of inhaled isoflurane in a series of … Continue reading

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Effects of selective brain cooling in patients with severe traumatic brain injury: a preliminary study.

This Abstract is taken from the Journal of International Medical Reserch (2006 Jan-Feb;34(1):58-64.) and is by Liu et al, in the Wang group at the Department of Neurosurgery at Zhejiang University, China. The Abstract is as follows We prospectively investigated non-invasive … Continue reading

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