Simulated rich club lesioning in brain networks: a scaffold for communication and integration?
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SUBMITTER: de Reus MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4139657 | biostudies-literature | 2014
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Simulated rich club lesioning in brain networks: a scaffold for communication and integration?
de Reus Marcel A MA van den Heuvel Martijn P MP
Frontiers in human neuroscience 20140821
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