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Jilly_in_VA

(10,838 posts) Sun Oct 29, 2023, 01:51 PM Oct 2023

Scientists built the largest-ever map of the human brain. Here's what they found

Scientists are one step closer to understanding the 170 billion brain cells that allow us to walk, talk, and think.

A newly published atlas offers the most detailed maps yet of the location, structure, and, in some cases, function of more than 3,000 types of brain cells.

"We really need this kind of information if we're going to understand what makes us unique as humans, or what makes us different as individuals, or how the brain develops," says Ed Lein, a senior investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle and one of hundreds of researchers who worked on the maps.

The atlas also offers a new way to study neuropsychiatric conditions ranging from Alzheimer's to depression.

"You can use this map to understand what actually happens in disease and what kinds of cells might be vulnerable or affected," Lein says.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/10/16/1205780690/largest-ever-map-human-brain-atlas-3000-cells-alzheimers-schizophrenia

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Scientists built the largest-ever map of the human brain. Here's what they found (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 OP

Mine has too many signs on the map -- "Demolition ahead; Detour". Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2023 #1

Whether cruising the Broadways of the corpus callosum, or getting stuck in the forgotten lanes of lost memories... sanatanadharma Oct 2023 #2

I saw that same map on my GPS two years ago. Led me to an alligator pit inside a volcano while an earthquake Wonder Why Oct 2023 #3

I know what you mean... WheelWalker Oct 2023 #4

Hermit-The-Prog

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1. Mine has too many signs on the map -- "Demolition ahead; Detour".

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Sun Oct 29, 2023, 03:01 PM

Oct 2023

sanatanadharma

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2. Whether cruising the Broadways of the corpus callosum, or getting stuck in the forgotten lanes of lost memories...

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Sun Oct 29, 2023, 03:36 PM

Oct 2023

Whether cruising the Broadways of the corpus callosum, or getting stuck in the forgotten lanes of lost memories, the conscious-beingness of the driver of the car, is the one who knows. And as consciousness is unchanged since birth.

Desires change, happiness comes and goes, the body changes, the mind certainly does.
Kids take the back seat, back seat-riders take shot gun; the passenger becomes the driver. The driver returns to the back .
Through it all only one constant conscious being has been in the auto-driver's seat.

The brain is just buttons and gears and file-cabinet storage, projector-movie-screen, bodily self-defense system: Hot-ouch!

Open my eyes and I see a rose. Electrify my brain there and I see a rose (sin ojos).
Close my eyes and I see a dream rose.
Who is the one seeing the objects of mind and memory?

Wonder Why

(4,572 posts)

3. I saw that same map on my GPS two years ago. Led me to an alligator pit inside a volcano while an earthquake

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Sun Oct 29, 2023, 03:50 PM

Oct 2023

was going on during a forest fire in front of the tornado in a sinkhole being flooded by a hurricane.

Then I woke up albeit all shook up with burns on my arms, soaking wet with a foot bitten off and a 2x4 through my brain.

It was the broccoli that did it.

WheelWalker

(9,198 posts)

4. I know what you mean...

Reply to Wonder Why (Reply #3)

Sun Oct 29, 2023, 04:04 PM

Oct 2023

Some nights I have too much to dream.

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