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Quoted in Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley, The Mind and the
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Quoted in Doidge, Brain That Changes Itself, 201.
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The Nobel laureate David Hubei made this remark to the
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Doidge, Brain That Changes Itself, XVIII.
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Schwartz and Begley, Mind and the Brain, 175.
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Quoted in Schwartz and Begley, Mind and the Brain, ill.
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James Olds, interview with the author, February 1, 2008.
