Today I Learned
Connectome
Connectome is complete map of a neural system. In history, the connectome of nematode was built completely.(1 and 2)
There is an excellant TED talk given by Sebastian Seung, I am my connectome. This is an intriguing talk. And I started thinking a lot about this idea.
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/314/1165/1
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Structural Properties of the Caenorhabditis elegans Neuronal Network by Lav R. Varshney, Beth L. Chen, Eric Paniagua, David H. Hall, Dmitri B. Chklovskii . ↩︎
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The Structure of the Nervous System of the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans by J. G. White , E. Southgate , J. N. Thomson , S. Brenner. ↩︎