Neurons—the nerve cells responsible for transmitting electrical and chemical signals throughout the body—are organized in tissue, tending to cluster together in groups according to how they function.

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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a ...

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Two of the goals of that program are to generate a detailed wiring diagram for the complete mouse brain, and to map long-distance connections between different areas of the human brain.

Next, a second group dissected that same brain region, dividing it into layers 1/400th the width of a human hair, and took pictures of each slice. Due to the delicate nature of the structure ...

A team of more than 100 scientists recorded the cellular activity and mapped the structure in a cubic millimeter of a mouse’s brain.Credit... Supported by By Carl Zimmer The human brain is so ...

an achievement that could offer insight into how the human brain works. They worked out the cerebral architecture in a tissue sample the size of a grain of sand bearing more than 200,000 cells ...

As more detailed maps of neural connections are created, spanning various species and brain regions, NEURD will be crucial for advancing the understanding of neural networks. While this research is ...