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Norman Dott Memorial Lecture, International Conference on Recent Advances in Neuro-traumatology, 21 September 1982, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Supported in part by NINCDS programme grant # NS 10174
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Collins, W. A review and update of experiment and clinical studies of spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord 21, 204–219 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1983.34
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