Andrew West

Associate Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Andrew West is associate professor of neurology and neurobiology at University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Spectrum

Postmortem brains crucial for autism research

By Dan Arking, Andrew West
4 September 2012 | 6 min read

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Govern neurodata by how it’s used, not where it’s from

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How new technologies can bring primatologists and systems neuroscientists together

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