{"id":155850,"date":"2023-01-20T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-new-field-of-neuroscience-aims-to-map-connections-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2023-01-20T09:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:22:18","slug":"a-new-field-of-neuroscience-aims-to-map-connections-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-new-field-of-neuroscience-aims-to-map-connections-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"A New Field of Neuroscience Aims to Map Connections in the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-field-of-neuroscience-aims-to-map-connections-in-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of us have seen microscopic images of neurons in the brain \u2014 each neuron appearing as a glowing cell in a vast sea of blackness. This image is misleading: Neurons don\u2019t exist in isolation. In the human brain, some 86 billion neurons form 100 trillion connections to each other \u2014 numbers that, ironically, are far too large for the human brain to fathom.<\/p>\n<p>Wei-Chung Allen Lee, Harvard Medical School associate professor of neurology at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, is working in a new field of neuroscience called connectomics, which aims to comprehensively map connections between neurons in the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us have seen microscopic images of neurons in the brain \u2014 each neuron appearing as a glowing cell in a vast sea of blackness. This image is misleading: Neurons don\u2019t exist in isolation. In the human brain, some 86 billion neurons form 100 trillion connections to each other \u2014 numbers that, ironically, are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155850","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\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}