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The planarians have been used extensively for studies on regeneration, morphogenesis, and, in the last decade, for provocative experiments on the chemical and cellular bases of memory. Yet, in spite of this interest in certain selected classes of phenomena which the planarians manifest, the anatomical and physiological substratum underlying these has been only imperfectly studied or known. This gap in the critical information needed to decipher fully this, now reasonably numerous, body of experiments has rendered it less valuable than it has the potential to be.
A portion of the research described was suggested by PHS grant No. MH07603 and NASA grant No. NSG-625.
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Best, J.B. (1967). The Neuroanatomy of the Planarian Brain and Some Functional Implications. In: Corning, W.C., Ratner, S.C. (eds) Chemistry of Learning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6565-3_10
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