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IV. CONTRIBUTIONS OF RESEARCH ON INFRAHUMAN ANIMALS TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF ELECTRIC CONVULSIVE SHOCK PHENOMENA*
ROGER W RUSSELL,
ROGER W RUSSELL
Western State Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, and University of Pittsburgh
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ROGER W RUSSELL
Western State Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, and University of Pittsburgh
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The unpublished research summarized in this paper was conducted in the Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Western State Psychiatric Institute and Quite, and was supported by a United States Public Health Service research grant Other data have been abstracted from research reports referred to in the bibliography
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F Habit Reversal
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