Great minds think alike, so goes the saying. Greatness notwithstanding, a study in PNAS finds that the minds of friends do appear to share patterns of activity. “A lot of us have the intuition that our friends are kind … Continue reading
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Friends appear to share patterns of brain activity
Categories: Journal Club | Neuroscience | Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
Tagged connectome, MRI, neural fingerprint
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Journal Club: New technique lights up the connectome, tracking signals across neuronal populations
Neuroscientists still possess an incomplete understanding of how different neurons interface and communicate throughout the brain’s wiring diagram, called the connectome. In a recent eLife article, Caltech molecular neurobiologist Carlos Lois and colleagues introduce a new tool to screen for such … Continue reading
Categories: Applied Biological Sciences | Biochemistry | Journal Club | Neuroscience
Tagged axon, connectome, dendrite, electron microscopy, neuon, TRACT, wiring diagram
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