Backwardness of human neuroanatomy (original) (raw)

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To interpret the activity of living human brains, their neuroanatomy must be known in detail. New techniques to do this are urgently needed, since most of the methods now used on monkeys cannot be used on humans.

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  1. Salk Institute, PO Box 85800, San Diego, California, 92186
    Francis Crick
  2. Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the Uni-versity of California, Irvine, California, 92715, USA
    Edward Jones

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Crick, F., Jones, E. Backwardness of human neuroanatomy.Nature 361, 109–110 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/361109a0

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