Untangling the brain - by Nature Video

Our brains are a dense tangle of billions of nerve cells connected together at synapses. Knowing how everything links up is key to understanding how the brain works -- but it's a huge challenge. Figuring out the brain's wiring diagram is the aim of 'connectomics'. It's done at many scales: from the 'super highways' linking brain areas down to individual cells and their connections. This video shows how, for the first time, scientists have reconstructed the wiring of tiny pieces of the mouse brain and related it to the function of individual cells.

Read the original research papers here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature09818 & http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature09802

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[skorpen2]

Mindblowing!

[chaser51234]

im buyin a mind condom now!!

[MVK mvk]

the mouse in the video looks nice ..

[crorillabe]

cool!

[jhamien920]

I can't believe that the brain gets tangled. Haha.

[joshua vogelstein]

to actually see all the raw data from the Bock et al study, visit the Open Connectome Project website. it is truly amazing (imho)....

[Tao Liu]

5:10 Both the papers should be published 10 March, 2011 instead of 10 March, 2010.

[Films4You]

Is this getting ready for "The New World Order"

[jeebersjumpincryst]

Hey mouse.... Im going to need your retina