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A Tribute to Elena Korneva: Reversal of Aging and Cancer by Pavlovian Conditioning: Neuroimmunomodulation – Some History

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Published in Rossiiskii Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal imeni I. M. Sechenova, Vol. 95, No. 12, pp. 1291–1308, December, 2009.

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N. H. Spector. A Tribute to Elena Korneva: Reversal of Aging and Cancer by Pavlovian Conditioning: Neuroimmunomodulation – Some History. Neurosci Behav Physi 41, 102–116 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-010-9386-1

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