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I HAVE recently demonstrated that a possible explanation to account for the gross memory disorder in some elderly psychiatric patients is a lowered energy of rever-beratory activity in neural cells; a reduction in cerebral excitation which mitigates against short-term storage1. This in turn is related to the pathology associated with senile dementia and cerebral arteriosclerosis.
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CAIRD, W. Reverberator Activity and Memory Disorder. Nature 201, 1150 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2011150a0
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