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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2016

Relationship between intelligence and spectral characteristics of brain biophoton emission: Correlation does not automatically imply causation.

Vahid Salari, István Bókkon, Roohollah Ghobadi, Felix Scholkmann, Jack A Tuszynski

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Reply to Salari et al.: Toward understanding the deep mechanisms regarding the biophotons related to human intelligence.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Vahid SalariDepartment of Physics, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran; School of Physics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran 19395-5531, Iran;
István BókkonPsychoszomatic Outpatient Department, National Center for Spinal Disorders, H-1037 Budapest, Hungary; Vision Research Institute, Lowell, MA 01854;
Roohollah GhobadiSchool of Physics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran 19395-5531, Iran; Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary, Calgary T2N 1N4, Alberta, Canada; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary T2N 1N4, Alberta, Canada;
Felix ScholkmannBiomedical Optics Research Laboratory, Department of Neonatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland; Research Office for Complex Physical and Biological Systems, CH-8038 Zurich, Switzerland;
Jack A TuszynskiDepartment of Physics, University of Alberta, Alberta T6G 2J1, Canada; Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Alberta T6G 2J1, Canada jackt@ualberta.ca.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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IntelligencePhotonsBrainHumans

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PMID27621479
PMCPMC5035900

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