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How can brain mapping initiatives cooperate to achieve the same goal?

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The independent worldwide brain-research initiatives should collaborate in order to enable them to reach their shared goal: gaining a better understanding of the tremendous complexity of the human brain.

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This work has been supported by Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development.

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  1. Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, 160–8582, Japan

    Hideyuki Okano

  2. RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Laboratory for Marmoset Neural Architecture, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan

    Hideyuki Okano

  3. RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Laboratory for Molecular Analysis of Higher Brain Function, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan

    Tetsuo Yamamori

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Okano, H., Yamamori, T. How can brain mapping initiatives cooperate to achieve the same goal?. Nat Rev Neurosci 17, 733–734 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn.2016.126

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