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Firing up the swallowing mechanism

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Cortical stimulation may prove useful in the development of interventions to alleviate impaired swallowing following brain injury (pages 1217–1224).

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Dimant, N. Firing up the swallowing mechanism. Nat Med 2, 1190–1191 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1196-1190

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