At the moment, researchers are working to build such a map, called a "connectome," of mouse brains, which are far less complex than human ones.
On a personal level, he hopes that a proper map of the human brain — a connectome — will one day allow people to transfer their thoughts and personalities onto, well, computers.
To map every single one of the tens of billions of neurons in the human brain, creating a "connectome" – a comprehensive map of the brain's neural connections.
Tractography is generated from anatomically defined seed regions of arbitrary size (above image resolution), shape, and number, allowing a complete connectivity map, or connectome, to be developed from a single brain.
A connectome is a map of the brain as a network of neurons.
In the hermaphrodite, this system comprises 302 neurons the pattern of which has been comprehensively mapped, in what is known as a connectome, and shown to be a small-world network.
The scientists cited the worm C. elegans, which to date is the only animal for which there is a complete static map, or "connectome".
If a connectome is like a road map, the ability to watch its neurons firing is like getting satellite video that shows how traffic is flowing along the map's roads: which are busy (and when), and which are rarely travelled.
I joke that if we could make mapping the connectome a game that was 1% as fun as Angry Birds, we'd be done with a cubic millimetre in two days.
To map every single one of the tens of billions of neurons in the human brain, creating a "connectome"—a comprehensive diagram of the brain's neural connections.
