Volume reconstruction of 950 nerve cells in a block of mouse retina. Sebastian seung, a dynamic professor at mit, is on a quest to discover the biological basis of identity. Sebastian seung gave a good introduction to connectomics and its recent developments, including advances in highresolution and highthroughput electron microscopy em imaging. The connectome, as its called, is where our genetic inheritance intersects with our life experience. The connectome is regarded as the key to brain function in health and disease. Oct 16, 2018 recent developments in serialsection electron microscopy allow the efficient generation of very large image data sets but analyzing such data poses challenges for software tools.
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Connectome is a mindbending adventure story, told with great pdf passion and authority. Kenneth blum, executive director, center for brain science, harvard university. The member universities of the human connectome project take privacy very seriously, whether dealing with participant data or the data of those visiting this website. He believes it lies in the pattern of connections between the brain s neurons, which change slowly over time as we learn and grow.
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