Sentences with phrase «complete brain map»

IT»S not quite as simple as X marks the spot, but uncovering the roots of neural disorders should be much easier now that we have a complete brain map.

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Last September the institute released a complete genomic map of the mouse brain — a free, searchable, three - dimensional analysis of 21,000 genes (including 85million images) that will help neuroscientists understand how different regions of the brain operate and interact.

At the top is a complete one - to - one mapping of the human brain.

But imagine for a moment if we could build a complete wiring diagram of a human brain — to map in detail every one of the hundred trillion or so synapses and roughly hundred billion neurons together with all the tiniest supporting mechanisms.

Using microelectrodes to monitor individual neurons in the brains of owl monkeys, he found that the somatosensory cortex has a complete topographical «map» of the entire body surface, in which adjacent areas of the map responded to body parts that were next to one another, such as the fingers.

Neuroscientists are mapping out a complete atlas of connectivity in the human brain, but what's emerging is a battle of scales.