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WWW: Pavlov's Dogs 

Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L (The History of Neuroscience Internet 
Forum) from Christopher Green on CHEIRON (Society for the History of 
the Social and Behavioral Sciences).

The source comes from a Cold Spring Harbor press release about work by 
CSH neuroscientists Tim Tully and Josh Dubnau: "Pavlov's Flies: 
Researchers Identify Fruit Fly Memory Mutants Broad Implications Seen 
for Treating Alzheimer's and Other Human Diseases"
[http://www.cshl.org/public/releases/press021703.html]

"In a fascinating and entertaining essay (available on request) that 
accompanies the published study, Tully describes how in 1992 he 
traveled to the Pavlov Institute in Koltushi, Russia to find the names 
of Pavlov's Dogs with the intention of naming his fruit fly memory 
mutants after the dogs. This despite the fact that at that time, he had 
few such fly mutants, and had been able to find the name of but one of 
Pavlov's Dogs, Bierka. 

"After several dead ends, and on the final day of his visit, Tully was 
invited for a private tour of Pavlov's home. There he struck gold when 
the curator showed him a photo album inside which were photographs of 
forty of Pavlov's Dogs, along with their Russian names (e.g. Rosa, 
Mirta, Norka, Trezor, Visgun, Jurka, Jack, John. Photographs and 
complete list of names is available at http://www.cshl.edu/PDogs/)"

The essay, "Pavlov's Dogs", is on p. R117-R119 of the Feb. 17 issue 
(v.13 no.4) of _Current Biology_.  Some university libraries subscribe 
to this online (e.g., UCLA does this through ScienceDirect), so you may 
be able to read the full text of the paper (with photos of 10 of the 
dogs).

I am cc:ing this to Dr. Tully in the hopes that his Pavlov's Dogs 
website, which is certain to be linked from thousands of other 
websites, will incorporate his essay into the opening screen so that 
readers will have context for the photographs and the benefit of his 
historical research.

cheers,

Russell Johnson
HISTNEUR-L administrator
rjohnson@library.ucla.edu


--- Begin Forwarded Message ---
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:53:42 -0500
From: "Christopher D. Green" [christo@YORKU.CA]
Subject: Pavlov's Dogs
Sender: Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 
[CHEIRON@YORKU.CA]


Julie Tippett  sent me the following URL for
a site that deals extensively with Pavlov's Dogs. I do not know much
about its sources or reliability, but it is worth a look for thsoe
interested in such matters. http://www.cshl.org/PDogs/index.html

Best,
--
Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M3J 1P3

e-mail: christo@yorku.ca
phone:  416-736-5115 ext. 66164
fax:    416-736-5814
http://www.yorku.ca/christo/

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