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Nature 435, 264-265 (19 May 2005) | doi:10.1038/435264a; Published online 18 May 2005
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Iranian neuroscience: The brains trust of Tehran
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- Alison Abbott is Nature's senior European correspondent.
Abstract
An Islamic theocracy ravaged by economic sanctions isn't an obvious place to seek a vibrant cognitive-neuroscience research group. Yet that's what Alison Abbott found on a recent trip to Iran.
In December 1996, 20 students gathered in a small candle-lit room in the north of Tehran. There they vowed to devote themselves to the study of the brain and mind, sealing their pledge in a document signed with their own blood.
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