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2D and 3D Echocardiography in the Axolotl (Ambystoma Mexicanum)
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[The era of the axolotls: speculations regarding the neurobiological modifications during the adolescence]
1Médico Psiquiatra, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. fabiant@jdcla.org
Vertex (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
|December 6, 2006
Abstract:
The article summarizes a number of recent findings about the brain changes which take place during the adolescence and the youth, their relations with their behavior and some questions are formulated with regard to the deepening of these hypothesis.
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