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Explore the connections of the brain
This video by Tyler Sloan (Quorumetrix Studio) showcases neuroscience insights from the MICrONS Project
Scientists present the largest, most detailed, functional wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date—a milestone for neuroscience achieved by a global consortium of scientists. By understanding how the brain works—its parts, the way it is organized, how neurons are connected—scientists can better understand what happens when things go wrong in disease. The Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONS) Project took seven years and is considered one of the most challenging neuroscience experiment ever attempted.
The findings are presented in a suite of ten papers published in the Nature family of journals.
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