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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Computational Neuroscience" and "Encyclopedia of Computational </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">We have recently initiated an election for the article entitled "Neuroscience". </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">This very important article will define the field of neuroscience, and might </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">serve as a portal to the subfields of neuroscience and to the many </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Rodolfo Llinas (NYU)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Dale Purves (Duke)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Larry R. Squire (UCSD)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Eric Kandel (Columbia)</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">See <a href="http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Neuroscience">http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Neuroscience</a> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Abdellatif Nemri</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">PhD student, Dept of Biological Sciences, University of Montreal</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Assistant Editor to Scholarpedia <a href="mailto:abdellatif.nemri@scholarpedia.org">abdellatif.nemri@scholarpedia.org</a></p>
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