A side view of the brain's left hemisphere including the cerebrum and cerebellum. The Human Connectome Project (HCP) plans to do for the brain what the Human Genome Project (HGP) did for genetics.

As neuroscience strives for generalizability and equity, understanding human brain diversity across populations is crucial.

“It’s really a breakthrough in mapping the living human brain using [magnetic resonance imaging-based] methods,” neuroscientist Katrin Amunts at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany, who was not ...

They're calling it a "parcellation." That doesn't even come close to explaining the unprecedented clarity and resolution with which scientists have further refined the network diagram of the human ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Mapping the brain is a daunting task because it contains a huge ...

The human brain is a tangled highway of wires emanating from nearly 100 billion neurons, all of which communicate across trillions of junctions called synapses. "Depressingly complex," Harvard ...

Landmark collaborative project sets out to chart every neural connection in the mouse brain. The human brain is a network of around 100 billion neurons connected via synapses. Jeff Lichtman (Harvard ...

Scanning electron microscopy shows individual neurons in a piece of cerebral cortex. Data is on the scale of what Harvard and Google researchers will produce with the new connectome project. Cells are ...

Though current methods allow researchers to study neural networks in individual brain regions, Collins contrasts the Connectome data as the “difference between listening to the string section ...