Alex Shapson-Coe

Our human connectome project is now published; science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. Thanks to all contibutors, esp @michalj, D.Berger, @stardazed0 and J.Lichtman. As Cajal said; “The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory".

To give you an idea of the complexity of the human brain, here is all the wiring in one cubic millimeter, connected by 133 million synapses. Read all about it in our preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…, with @michalj, Lichtman Lab and Google Connectomics. youtube.com/watch?v=C6qHpt…