{"id":24054,"date":"2016-03-28T18:16:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T01:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/research-on-largest-network-of-cortical-neurons-to-date"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:36:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:36:40","slug":"research-on-largest-network-of-cortical-neurons-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/research-on-largest-network-of-cortical-neurons-to-date","title":{"rendered":"Research on largest network of cortical neurons to date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-on-largest-network-of-cortical-neurons-to-date.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Awesome!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Even the simplest networks of neurons in the brain are composed of millions of connections, and examining these vast networks is critical to understanding how the brain works. An international team of researchers, led by R. Clay Reid, Wei Chung Allen Lee and Vincent Bonin from the Allen Institute for Brain Science, Harvard Medical School and Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders (NERF), respectively, has published the largest network to date of connections between neurons in the cortex, where high-level processing occurs, and have revealed several crucial elements of how networks in the brain are organized. The results are published in the journal <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a culmination of a research program that began almost ten years ago. Brain networks are too large and complex to understand piecemeal, so we used high-throughput techniques to collect huge data sets of brain activity and brain wiring,\u201d says R. Clay Reid, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. \u201cBut we are finding that the effort is absolutely worthwhile and that we are learning a tremendous amount about the structure of networks in the brain, and ultimately how the brain\u2019s structure is linked to its function.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough this study is a landmark moment in a substantial chapter of work, it is just the beginning,\u201d says Wei-Chung Lee, Ph.D., Instructor in Neurobiology at Harvard Medicine School and lead author on the paper. \u201cWe now have the tools to embark on reverse engineering the brain by discovering relationships between circuit wiring and neuronal and network computations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/03\/160328114636.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/03\/160328114636.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awesome! Even the simplest networks of neurons in the brain are composed of millions of connections, and examining these vast networks is critical to understanding how the brain works. An international team of researchers, led by R. Clay Reid, Wei Chung Allen Lee and Vincent Bonin from the Allen Institute for Brain Science, Harvard Medical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1694,38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-electronics","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24054","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62254,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24054\/revisions\/62254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}