From a cubic millimeter of tissue, scientists constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, detailing 84,000 neurons and more than 500 million synapses.

Though the volume of brain matter analyzed was barely the size of a grain of sand, the researchers still had to describe the relat. ... This wiring diagram of the brain is known as the connectome.

“It is no use asking for the impossible, such as, say, the exact wiring diagram for a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and the way all its neurons are firing,” Crick wrote in Scientific American.

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Gray matter is made up of neuronal cell bodies, while white matter primarily consists of myelinated axons. In the brain, white matter is found closer to the center of the brain, whereas the outer ...

White matter, the parts of brain cells that connect to other neurons in fiber bundles, is linked to improved learning and focus. ... A diagram of the white matter tracts in Chrastil's brain.

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections.

The brain alone has more than 100 billion neurons to send and receive these signals, or messages. Your spinal cord is a column of tissue that runs from the lower part of your brain to your lower back.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in ...