{"id":111095,"date":"2020-08-10T08:22:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T15:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/these-scientists-just-completed-a-3d-google-earth-for-the-brain"},"modified":"2020-08-10T08:22:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T15:22:22","slug":"these-scientists-just-completed-a-3d-google-earth-for-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/these-scientists-just-completed-a-3d-google-earth-for-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"These Scientists Just Completed a 3D \u2018Google Earth\u2019 for the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-scientists-just-completed-a-3d-google-earth-for-the-brain3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But have you ever wondered: how well do those maps represent <em>my <\/em>brain? After all, no two brains are alike. And if we\u2019re ever going to reverse-engineer the brain as a computer simulation\u2014as Europe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanbrainproject.eu\/en\/brain-simulation\/\">Human Brain Project<\/a> is trying to do\u2014shouldn\u2019t we ask <em>whose<\/em> brain they\u2019re hoping to simulate?<\/p>\n<p>Enter a new kind of map: <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2020\/07\/29\/science.abb4588\">the Julich-Brain<\/a>, a <em>probabilistic <\/em>map of human brains that accounts for individual differences using a computational framework. Rather than generating a static PDF of a brain map, the Julich-Brain atlas is also dynamic, in that it continuously changes to incorporate more recent brain mapping results. So far, the map has data from over 24,000 thinly sliced sections from 23 postmortem brains covering most years of adulthood at the cellular level. But the atlas can also continuously adapt to progress in mapping technologies to aid brain modeling and simulation, <em>and<\/em> link to other atlases and alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, rather than \u201cjust another\u201d human brain map, the Julich-Brain atlas is its own neuromapping API\u2014one that could unite previous brain-mapping efforts with more modern methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But have you ever wondered: how well do those maps represent my brain? After all, no two brains are alike. And if we\u2019re ever going to reverse-engineer the brain as a computer simulation\u2014as Europe\u2019s Human Brain Project is trying to do\u2014shouldn\u2019t we ask whose brain they\u2019re hoping to simulate? Enter a new kind of map: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1965,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mapping","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111095","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}