| Brain's Wiring: More Like the Internet Than a Pyramid? |
| Tuesday, 10 August 2010 11:45 |
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A study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences answers that question for a small area of the rat brain and in so doing takes a big step toward revealing the brain's wiring. The network of brain connections was thought too complex to describe, but molecular biology and computing methods have improved to the point that the National Institutes of Health have announced a $30 million plan to map the human "connectome." |
The brain has been mapped to the smallest fold for at least a century, but still no one knows how all the parts talk to each other.
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