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The Future Is Open: Open-Source Tools for Behavioral Neuroscience Research

Samantha R. White, Linda M. Amarante, Alexxai V. Kravitz and Mark Laubach
eNeuro 29 July 2019, 6 (4) ENEURO.0223-19.2019; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0223-19.2019
Samantha R. White
1Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, American University, Washington, DC 20016
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Linda M. Amarante
1Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, American University, Washington, DC 20016
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Alexxai V. Kravitz
2Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0223-19.2019
PubMed 
31358510
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History 
  • Received June 11, 2019
  • Revision received July 12, 2019
  • Accepted July 21, 2019
  • Published online July 29, 2019.
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Copyright © 2019 White et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Samantha R. White1,^,
  2. Linda M. Amarante1,^,
  3. Alexxai V. Kravitz2 and
  4. Mark Laubach1
  1. 1Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, American University, Washington, DC 20016
  2. 2Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Mark Laubach at mark.laubach{at}american.edu.
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  1. ↵^ S.R.W. and L.M.A. contributed equally to this work.

Disclosures

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • This work was supported by National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Program (L.M.A.) and a NASA DC Space Grant Consortium Award (M.L.).

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  • NASA DC Space Grant Consortium

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