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Brain 2005 128(3):447-448; doi:10.1093/brain/awh433
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Editorial

Editorial

Alastair Compston

Cambridge

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In the ‘Tales that neurologists tell’, Michael Trimble and Edmund Rolls (page 688) review the professional lives and scientific opinions of six individuals, and one institution, active across the latter half of the 20th century. These accounts combine the syntheses of quick minds (and, in the case of Sir Roger Bannister, also a speedy pair of legs) watching and contemplating the nervous system in health and disease over their working lifetimes. For some, the perspective on looking back is a scientific analysis; for others it is the social climate in which these professional activities occurred; for each, there is the wish to set down a record of observation and advancement. Professor Rolls places the formulations of Jean-Pierre Changeux on The Physiology of Truth in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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