The limits of brain determinacy

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1734, 2012, Pages 1665-1674

  Clarke, Peter G H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brain; Environment; Genes; Nervous system; Noise; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELL ORGANELLE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NOISE; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84858785294     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2629     Document Type: Review

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