Specials
New angles on the brain
In this neuroscience special issue, Nature brings together reporting and expert opinion on efforts to apply current technologies and invent new ones to probe how the brain works. Thanks to such technologies — including those designed to map neural connections down to the level of synapses and ion channels — researchers may be on the verge of opening new vistas in understanding just as long-term programmes in the European Union and United States could together pour more than US$2 billion into the study of the brain over the next decade.
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