BRAIN MAPPING IN HIGH RESOLUTION

摘要

Researchers wanting to understand the workings of the brain need maps on many different scales - to link structure to function, to parse the complexities of memory loss or learning disability, or to find out what is different about the brains of people with neurodegenerative diseases. For instance, programmes such as the Human Connectome Project, funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, and the Consortium of Neuroimagers for the Non-invasive Exploration of Brain Connectivity and Tracts (CONNECT), funded by the European Commission in Brussels, are producing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) maps that follow neuronal connections across the entire brain, on a scale of tens of centimetres.