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  1. Brain & Body Centre, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom and Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Canada

    Tomáš Paus

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Paus, T. (2007). Maturation of Structural and Functional Connectivity in the Human Brain. In: Jirsa, V.K., McIntosh, A. (eds) Handbook of Brain Connectivity. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71512-2_16

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