Researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a large ...

NIH BRAIN Initiative-funded research will lay the groundwork to map entire brains at incredible detail SEATTLE, Sept. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A complete map of all the connections in an entire ...

Scientists from the University of California, Irvine have discovered that an injury to one part of the brain changes the connections between nerve cells across the entire brain. The new research was ...

Mapping brain connections is tricky -- chemicals can destroy the very structures you're trying to map, and an electron microscope can only tell you so much. MIT researchers aren't daunted, however.