infoneer-pulse: Spectacular Brain Images Reveal Surprisingly Simple Structure Stunning new visuals of the brain reveal a deceptively simple pattern of organization in the wiring of this complex organ. Instead of nerve fibers travelling willy-nilly through the brain like spaghetti, as some imaging has suggested, the new portraits reveal two-dimensional sheets of parallel fibers crisscrossing other sheets at right angles in a gridlike structure that folds and contorts with the convolutions of the brain. This same pattern appeared in the brains of humans, rhesus monkeys, owl monkeys, marmosets and galagos, researchers report today (March 29) in the journal Science. » via Live Science Haha, that’s hilarious. Simple! Yes, the diffusion mapping of water in billions of neurons that interconnect in ways that we have yet to even fathom. We totally have this figured out. Right?The connectome is more anatomy lesson than brain map at this point. It draws a guiding track for future discovery, but let’s not let LiveScience or anyone make us think that patterns and pretty pictures mean that we have simplified the workings of the most complex computer on Earth (and maybe elsewhere), m’kay?
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Spectacular Brain Images Reveal Surprisingly Simple Structure

Stunning new visuals of the brain reveal a deceptively simple pattern of organization in the wiring of this complex organ.

Instead of nerve fibers travelling willy-nilly through the brain like spaghetti, as some imaging has suggested, the new portraits reveal two-dimensional sheets of parallel fibers crisscrossing other sheets at right angles in a gridlike structure that folds and contorts with the convolutions of the brain.

This same pattern appeared in the brains of humans, rhesus monkeys, owl monkeys, marmosets and galagos, researchers report today (March 29) in the journal Science.

» via Live Science

Haha, that’s hilarious. Simple! Yes, the diffusion mapping of water in billions of neurons that interconnect in ways that we have yet to even fathom. We totally have this figured out. Right?

The connectome is more anatomy lesson than brain map at this point. It draws a guiding track for future discovery, but let’s not let LiveScience or anyone make us think that patterns and pretty pictures mean that we have simplified the workings of the most complex computer on Earth (and maybe elsewhere), m’kay?

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Source: livescience.com

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