“Rather a manager and networker than a researcher”: converging technologies in the clinic.
Technological developments brought about new approaches to and new insight into the functioning of the brain and neurological disorders. More specifically, advancement in the areas of neuroimaging, genomic technologies and molecular biology is conceived as a pathway to more differentiated diagnosis...
| Publicado en: | Innovation: The European Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 376 - 398 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2013
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