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Brain Wiring Mapped Via Super Charged MRI [Video]
The wiring your brain is more orderly than most people would imagine: instead of spaghetti mess of connections it’s actually more of an orderly grid. Check out this 3D MRI scan and accompanying article to peek inside.
Courtesy of the NIMH:
No tangles! The human brain’s connections turn out to be a an orderly 3D grid structure with no diagonals. 2D sheets of parallel fibers cross at right angles — ” like the warp and weft of a fabric.” The first pictures from the most powerful brain scanner of its kind reveal an “astonishingly simple architecture.” This diffusion spectrum image of a whole human brain came from the new Connectom scanner, part of the NIH’s Human Connectome Project.
Source: Van Wedeen, M.D., Martinos Center and Dept. of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University Medical School
Check out the full article at the link below.
Brain Wiring a No-Brainer [National Institute of Mental Health via Flowing Data]
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Jason Fitzpatrick is warranty-voiding DIYer and all around geek. When he's not documenting mods and hacks he's doing his best to make sure a generation of college students graduate knowing they should put their pants on one leg at a time and go on to greatness, just like Bruce Dickinson. You can follow him on Google+ if you'd like.
- Published 08/6/12
orderly & color-coded, like the patch chords between servers, SANs & switches in my server room
Ah I see where MUSE have got their New Album cover idea from “The 2nd Law” its cool tho’
@ r…where are the labels……..no wonder I can’t remember where anything is anymore……..I don’t have any labels for my color-coded brain wires….it kind of reminds me how the IT guys set up all of the network wires………………..
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To me it looks like someone with a colorful mohawk is having a bad-hair day in the rain. So they dump everything out of their clear satchel to use as a rain bonnet. But you can’t keep wild hairs of those colors contained . . . they break through their cell and are now running free on someone elses screen !
Fascinating! Thanks again for these articles.
A few of mine hive frayed heir edges. I am currently fighting Parkinson;s disease