Interacting and paradoxical forces in neuroscience and society

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-160

  Singh, Jennifer ^a   Hallmayer, Joachim ^b   Illes, Judy ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTISM; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MUSIC; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIETY;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; NEUROSCIENCES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIETIES;

EID: 33846404876     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2073     Document Type: Review

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