The human connectome: A structural description of the human brain

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 0245-0251

  Sporns, Olaf ^a   Tononi, Giulio ^b   Kötter, Rolf ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN;

CONNECTION MATRIX; CONNECTION PATTERNS; HUMAN BRAIN; HUMAN CONNECTOME; LARGE-SCALES; MAMMALIAN SPECIES; NEUROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH; RESEARCH EFFORTS; RESEARCH STRATEGY; STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTIONS;

MAMMALS;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; REVIEW; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 31144436747     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0010042     Document Type: Review

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