Category: Brain Architecture & Maps
- New Map Shows How Our Neurons Communicate ()
Summary: Researchers from Cleveland Clinic and OHSU have unveiled a pioneering technique for charting the intricate conversations occurring within our brains. Such insights are key to decoding behavioral alterations in neurological disease patients. The innovative tool, CaMPARI, allows scientists to witness brain activity in real-time, marking active neurons red and inactive ones green. This breakthrough […]
- Scientists built the largest-ever map of the human brain. Here’s what they found ()
Scientists are one step closer to understanding the 170 billion brain cells that allow us to walk, talk, and think. A newly published atlas offers the most detailed maps yet of the location, structure, and, in some cases, function of more than 3,000 types of brain cells. “We really need this kind of information if […]
- Scientists just drafted an incredibly detailed map of the human brain ()
A massive suite of papers offers a high-res view of the human and non-human primate brain. By Cassandra Willyard October 12, 2023 This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. When scientists first […]
- Scientists just used A.I. to map a fruit fly’s brain. Here’s why it’s a ‘turning point in neuroscience’ ()
Without A.I., the researchers would have taken roughly 2,000 collective years to finish the work—they also made almost 3 million edits to fix the A.I.’s mistakes. All ~130,000 neurons in the flywire.ai connectome. Further details in Dorkenwald et al and Schlegel et al bioRxiv preprints. Imagine you need to find a room in an expansive, […]