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3 unusual facts about Edward Taub


Edward Taub

Sharon Begley writes that Taub and his colleagues' work achieved major progress in the area of neuroplasticity, by targeting the conditions in which the brain can adapt and repair itself after an injury.

Silver Spring monkeys

Edward Taub (born 1931) is a behavioral neuroscientist currently based at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

The monkeys had been used as research subjects by Edward Taub, a psychologist, who had cut afferent ganglia that supplied sensation to the brain from their arms, then used arm slings to restrain either the good or deafferented arm to train them to use the limbs they could not feel.



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St Luke's Hospital, Singapore

This new therapy was developed by Dr Edward Taub of the Taub Clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, United States.