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Frontiers | Human Brain Expansion during Evolution Is Independent of Fire Control and Cooking
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Frontiers | Aberrant resting-state functional connectivity in medication-naïve generalized anxiety disorder: a whole-brain exploratory fMRI study
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Differential Evolutionary Fate of an Ancestral Primate Endogenous Retrovirus Envelope Gene, the EnvV Syncytin, Captured for a Function in Placentation
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Retroviruses push the envelope for mammalian placentation | PNAS
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Aberrant resting-state functional connectivity in medication-naïve generalized anxiety disorder: a whole-brain exploratory fMRI study - PMC
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Frontiers | Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis of the Kynurenine Pathway in Mood Disorders: Focus on Gut Microbiota Research
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The Gut Microbiota, Kynurenine Pathway, and Immune System Interaction in the Development of Brain Cancer - PMC
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Computational psychiatry as a bridge from neuroscience to clinical applications - PubMed
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Dual Role of Indoles Derived From Intestinal Microbiota on Human Health - PMC
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Microbial modulation of tryptophan metabolism links gut microbiota to disease and its treatment
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Frontiers | Tryptophan Metabolism by Gut Microbiome and Gut-Brain-Axis: An in silico Analysis
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Microbial tryptophan catabolites in health and disease - Nature Communications
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Frontiers | Macroscopic quantum effects in the brain: new insights into the fundamental principle underlying conscious processes
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Frontiers | Competitive Trace Theory: A Role for the Hippocampus in Contextual Interference during Retrieval
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