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Neuroscience: The risks of reading the brain

Russell Poldrack assesses a primer on the implications of advances in brain imaging.

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Poldrack, R. Neuroscience: The risks of reading the brain. Nature 541, 156 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/541156a

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