''Progress in Brain Research'' is a series of

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s on

neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, developme ...

published by

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. The first volume appeared in 1963 and , 207 volumes have been published. The

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of the series are Stephen Waxman (

Yale University School of Medicine The Yale School of Medicine is the graduate medical school at Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1810 as the Medical Institution of Yale College and formally opened in 1813. The primary te ...

), Donald G. Stein (

Emory University Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...

Dick Swaab Dick Ferdinand Swaab (born 17 December 1944) is a Dutch physician and neurobiologist (brain researcher). He is a professor of neurobiology at the University of Amsterdam and was until 2005 Director of the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research ...

(

Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) (Dutch: ''Nederlands Herseninstituut'') is a research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) that carries out neuroscience research with special emphasis on the brain ...

), Howard Fields (

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). Despite being a book series, ''Progress in Brain Research'' is abstracted and indexed in the

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and according to the ''

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'', the series has a 2012

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of 4.191. Each volume has its own

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(ISBN). In addition, the series has an International Standard Serial Number (print: , online: ). The series is also abstracted and indexed in

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