The Blue Brain Project

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 153-160

  Markram, Henry ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 31444442519     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1848     Document Type: Review

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