CogNation

Episode 27: The Connectome


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A connectome is a representation of every connection between neurons in the brain. Recent brain-slicing technology, in addition to image recognition tools, has begun to make this science-fiction idea become a reality. Rolf and Joe discuss the recent publication of the largest completed connectome to date, that of the fruit fly drosophilia. The database for the connectome is publicly available, and includes huge amounts of data about every one of the approximately 25,000 neurons mapped to date.

Paper:

A connectome of the adult drosophila central brain (2020)

OR access the database yourself at:

https://neuprint.janelia.org/

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