Edward Taub

Psychology Professor Edward Taub, Ph.D, now is chair-elect of the Section on Psychology (section J) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). His term continues through February 2011.

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Taub is internationally known as the developer of Constraint Induced Therapy, a family of rehabilitation techniques that greatly improves the rehabilitation of movement after neurological injury.