Edward Taub

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Edward Taub (born 1931, Brooklyn New York) is a behavioral neurologist at the faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is renowned for his involvement in the Silver Spring macaque case and for making major breakthroughs in the field of neuroplasticity and finding/developing barrier induced movement therapy; a family of techniques that help the rehabilitation of those who have learned can not be used as a result of the suffering of neurological injury from stroke or other causes.

Taub's techniques have helped victims regain the use of paralyzed legs, and have been praised by the American Stroke Association as "at the forefront of a revolution". The Society for Neuroscience calls Taub's work one of the 10 achievements of translation Neuroscience in the 20th century and was awarded the 2004 Distinguished Scientific Award from the American Psychological Association.

Taub holds a B.A. from Brooklyn College, M.A. from Columbia University, and Ph.D. from New York University. He is married to opera singer Mildred Allen.

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Percobaan Silver Spring

Taub's studies have involved the subject of animal testing, including seventeen monkey monkeys living within the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. These monkeys, known as the Silver Spring monkeys, became the focus of protests pioneered by Alex Pacheco of the PETA animal rights group in 1981.

After Pacheco submitted his allegations to the authorities, Taub was charged with 119 allegations of animal cruelty and failed to provide adequate animal care. At the end of the first trial, 113 cruel allegations were issued by the judge, mainly because a veterinarian of the Department of Agriculture who made a surprise visit to the laboratory had testified that he had not found the conditions described by Pacheco. Taub was found guilty of six counts of lawlessness for failing to provide adequate veterinary care and fined $ 3,500. Five of them were dismissed at the second hearing, the jury and the last indictment set aside by the appeals court, which found that the Maryland Crime Prevention Law was never meant to apply to researchers.

The National Institutes of Health initiated its own investigation and froze the remaining funds for Taub's trial, more than $ 200,000, for breach of animal care guidelines. After Taub was released by the court, sixty seven professional communities made representations on behalf of Taub and NIH reversing his decision not to fund it.

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Work on stroke recovery

In 1987, Taub moved to the University of Alabama-Birmingham, and began focusing on the field of stroke recovery. Taub seeks to investigate the potential of "constraint-based therapy" to help restore movement in affected limbs. With impaired arm, for example, therapy involves holding the patient's good arm during periods of intensive therapy on the affected arm. Sharon Begley writes that Taub's work and his colleagues made great progress in the field of neuroplasticity, targeting conditions in which the brain can adapt and improve after an injury.