Connectome: How The Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are

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Science has long struggled to pinpoint where, precisely, our uniqueness resides. A connectome is a map of connections between a brainΓÇÖs neurons, and connectomics is the use of brain imaging and technology to increase the speed and efficiency of those maps. Your brain contains a million times more connections than your genome has letters. Finding the complete neuronal connectome of a human brain is one of the greatest scientific and technological challenges of all time. SeungΓÇÖs goal is to compare connectomes between normal brains and disordered brains, which would reveal whatΓÇÖs behind brain disorders. If he and his team succeed, it could reveal the basis of personality, intelligence, memory, and mental disorders. Many scientists speculate that people with anorexia, autism, and schizophrenia are ΓÇ£wired differently.ΓÇ¥ This research has the potential to completely rock our understanding of the brain.



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