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. 2020 Oct 9:371:m3683.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.m3683.

What is brain health and why is it important?

Yongjun Wang  1   2 , Yuesong Pan  3   2 , Hao Li  3   2
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What is brain health and why is it important?

Yongjun Wang et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Yongjun Wang and colleagues discuss the definition of brain health and the opportunities and challenges of future research

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare that the study was supported by grants from the National Science and Technology Major Project (2017ZX09304018), National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFC1312903, 2017YFC1310902, 2018YFC1311700, and 2018YFC1311706), National Natural Science Foundation of China (81971091), Beijing Hospitals Authority Youth Programme (QML20190501), and Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission (D171100003017002).

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