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  1. The Wellcome collection is a museum in London, United Kingdom, that is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is the world’s largest independent charitable foundation funding research into human and animal health. The exhibition ran from end of March to mid June 2012. More information is available online: www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/brains.aspx, accessed 6 May 2013.

  2. The conference was co-organised by the European Neuroscience and Society Network (ENSN) and the Institute for Science Innovation and Society (InSIS) and hosted at the Said Business School, University of Oxford, on 7 and 8 December 2010. For more information see: www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/school/events-0/neurosociety-conference-what-it-brain-these-days accessed 10 August 2015.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the European Neuroscience and Society Network (ENSN), London School of Economics and Political Sciences/King’s College London, and the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), University of Oxford, for generously sponsoring a 2-day international conference entitled “Neurosociety… what is it with the brain these days” that the authors organised at the Saïd Business School in December 2010. Thank you to all members of ENSN and InSIS, and conference participants for their contributions and for making the conference such a stimulating and successful event. Finally, they would like to thank the editors of BioSocieties for their support and constructive feedback.

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Schneider, T., Woolgar, S. Neuroscience beyond the laboratory: Neuro knowledges, technologies and markets. BioSocieties 10, 389–399 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2015.38

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