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Monday, December 27, 2010

Human Connectome: Our Brain's Atlas

via Dean's Corner on 12/27/10

If you thought the human genome project was impressive its scope and scale. think about the human connectome project.

I recently shared with you the fruit fly brain atlas, comprised of about 100,000 neurons, and compared it to the human brain with some 100 billion neurons.

The first high resolution images of the "connectedness" of the human brain are beginning to emerge:

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