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Dr. Michael Valenzuela is a prize-winning regenerative neuroscientist. He is a Research Fellow in Regenerative Neuroscience at the School of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales.

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The Monthly

Week of December 27- January 3, 2009

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Dr. Boaz Ancselovic, MD, Geriatrician, Alzheimer's Weekly.
Edited by Peter Berger, Alzheimer's Weekly.
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