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Looking ahead to future brain studies

Nature volume 433, page 803 (2005)Cite this article

The New Brain Sciences: Perils and Prospects

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Cambridge University Press: 2004. 316 pp. £65, $120 (hbk); £24.99, $43 (pbk) 0521830095 | ISBN: 0-521-83009-5

The brain sciences are undoubtedly burgeoning. In recent years, molecular biochemistry and genomic mapping have been combining with fancy functional imaging techniques to tell us more and more about the brain's internal workings.

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