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Considering how combinatorial interventions may promote neurocognitive plasticity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2009

MICHELLE C. CARLSON*
Affiliation:
Department of Mental Health, Center on Aging and Health, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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*Correspondence and reprint requests to: Michelle C. Carlson, Department of Mental Health, Center on Aging and Health, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2024 E. Monument Street, Suite 2-700, Baltimore, Maryland 21205. E-mail: mcarlson@jhmi.edu

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Neurobehavioral Grand Rounds-Introduction
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Copyright © INS 2009

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