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| | Silver Spring monkeys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Silver Spring monkeys were 17 monkeys kept in small wire cages inside the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland, by Dr. Edward Taub, who was researching regeneration of severed nerves with a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH). |
 | | Taub had cut sensory nerves in the monkeys' fingers, hands, arms, and legs in order to investigate what kind of stimulation, if any, would force the monkeys back to some level of motor functioning. |
 | | The stimulation used included persistent electric shock, prolonged physical restraint of an intact arm or leg, and withholding food. |
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