{"id":10681,"date":"2014-04-20T21:14:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T04:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10681"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:08:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:08:06","slug":"network-of-75-million-neurons-of-the-mouse-brain-mapped-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/network-of-75-million-neurons-of-the-mouse-brain-mapped-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Network of 75 Million Neurons of the Mouse Brain Mapped for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Posts by Cameron Scott\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/cscott\/\" rel=\"author\">Cameron Scott<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<\/p>\n<p><br \/> With improved <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/04\/06\/singularity-surplus-smile-youre-on-candid-camera\/\">visualization<\/a> tools and <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2013\/10\/15\/ambitious-billion-euro-human-brain-project-kicks-off-in-switzerland\/\">souped-up computers<\/a> to crunch the massive numbers involved in studying the 100 billion neurons in the human brain, many researchers, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanconnectomeproject.org\/\">U.S. government<\/a>, are trying to map the brain\u2019s wiring, or \u201cconnectome.\u201d Some researchers have dived right in to studying the massive human brain, but others see the mouse brain, with just 75 million neurons, as a more logical place to start.<\/p>\n<p>A new atlas of study results related to the mouse connectome offers the equivalent of a highway map, with local roads to be filled in later. The atlas, described in a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature13186.html\">paper<\/a> in <em>Nature<\/em>, represents more than four years of work undertaken at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a private nonprofit funded by a grant by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/04\/14\/network-of-75-million-neurons-of-the-mouse-brain-mapped-for-the-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Scott \u2014 Singularity Hub With improved visualization tools and souped-up computers to crunch the massive numbers involved in studying the 100 billion neurons in the human brain, many researchers, including the U.S. government, are trying to map the brain\u2019s wiring, or \u201cconnectome.\u201d Some researchers have dived right in to studying the massive human brain, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64992,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10681\/revisions\/64992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}