Mapping the human brain is no easy task. It鈥檚 estimated to contain billions of neurons and trillions of connections. Neuroscientists like 黑料吃瓜资源 Professor Partha Mitra are creating and employing new AI-based technology to help. Now, Mitra鈥檚 pioneering work has earned him a spot as one of the first recipients of the NIH鈥檚 BRAIN CONNECTS grant. The grant provides Mitra鈥檚 lab $5.1 million over five years.
is a new program launched by the National Institutes of Health. It aims to support the development of research tools needed to gather, analyze, and share data on neural cells and circuits. The ultimate goal is to generate wiring diagrams that span the brain and are accessible to the entire scientific community. Compiling a better atlas of the brain may reveal new ways to treat and prevent neurological disorders. And this is exactly the kind of work Mitra has been planning over the last 10 years.
鈥淣eural networks have caught the popular imagination,鈥 Mitra says. 鈥淏ut we haven’t yet charted those networks at a single neuron level across human brains or closely related species. This project will take us closer to that goal of mapping yet uncharted vistas of knowledge about ourselves. It will have profound scientific, technological, and biomedical implications.鈥
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