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Holmes’s Critical Experience in War: Trauma and the Brain

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We visit Holmes’s the Critical Experience in War, a Civil War, the trauma of which, impacted his brain and his sense of the world.

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Schulkin, J. (2019). Holmes’s Critical Experience in War: Trauma and the Brain. In: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism and Neuroscience. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23100-2_2

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