New technologies that allow scientists to trace the fine wiring of the brain more accurately than ever before could soon generate a complete wiring diagram–including every tiny fiber and ...

“The NIH is making an important investment in uncovering one of the most important features of brain anatomy—its wiring diagram, or how neurons are set up to talk to each other.

Scientists have therefore long dreamed of mapping and then decoding the connectome, the circuit diagram of the brain. With the development of a special staining method, Shawn Mikula and Winfried Denk ...

A digital atlas of every cell in a developing marine worm reveals how networks across the body coordinate sensing and movement, and provides insights into the evolution of the nervous system.

Mouse Brain Wiring DiagrA global collaboration of researchers has constructed the most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date.

The human brain is composed of billions of neurons wired together in intricate webs and communicating through electrical pulses and chemical signals. Although neuroscientists have made progress in ...

Neuroscientists already know that brain neurons can and do form specific rather than random connections with each other to generate the observed wiring diagram of the brain. However, the precise ...

Largest Brain Wiring Diagram to Date Is Published The partial fruit fly “connectome” contains approximately 25,000 neurons and 20 million synapses ...

Precise knowledge of the connections in the brain – the links between all the nerve cells – is a prerequisite for better understanding this most complex of organs. Now researchers have ...

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly.

Scientists have created the first detailed wiring diagram of an insect brain. The brain, from a fruit fly larva, contained 3016 neurons connected by 548,000 synapses, the team reported Thursday in ...

Human Connectome Project finds surprising correlations between brain architecture and behavioural or demographic influences.