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Contributed by Emery N. Brown, September 14, 2016 (sent for review February 29, 2016; reviewed by Loren M. Frank, Robert W. Gereau, and Andrew Jenkins)
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- Published in issue November 8, 2016.
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- Norman E. Taylora,b,c,
- Christa J. Van Dorta,b,c,
- Jonathan D. Kennya,c,
- JunZhu Peia,c,
- Jennifer A. Guideraa,c,
- Ksenia Y. Vlasova,c,
- Justin T. Leea,c,
- Edward S. Boydenc,d,e,f,
- Emery N. Browna,b,c,g,h,1,2, and
- Ken Solta,b,c,1
- aDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114;
- bDepartment of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114;
- cDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139;
- dMedia Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139;
- eMcGovern Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139;
- fDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139;
- gThe Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139;
- hInstitute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Contributed by Emery N. Brown, September 14, 2016 (sent for review February 29, 2016; reviewed by Loren M. Frank, Robert W. Gereau, and Andrew Jenkins)
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↵1E.N.B. and K.S. contributed equally to this work.
- ↵2To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: enb{at}neurostat.mit.edu.
Author contributions: N.E.T., C.J.V.D., E.N.B., and K.S. designed research; N.E.T. performed research; C.J.V.D., E.S.B., and E.N.B. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; N.E.T., J.D.K., J.P., J.A.G., K.Y.V., J.T.L., E.N.B., and K.S. analyzed data; and N.E.T. and K.S. wrote the paper.
Reviewers: L.M.F., Howard Hughes Medical Institute; R.W.G., Washington University; and A.J., Emory University School of Medicine.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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