That’s the preface Roderic Pettigrew, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, gave to the audience at a symposium on the Human Connectome Project this ...

The Human Connectome Project, a five-year endeavor to link brain connectivity to human behavior, has released a set of high-quality imaging and behavioral data to the scientific community. The Human ...

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Recent advances in noninvasive neuroimaging have set the stage for the systematic exploration of human brain circuits in health and disease. The Human Connectome Project (HCP) is systematically ...

In a first, a large, international team led by multiple labs at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has published ...

Janelia scientists and collaborators have reached another milestone in connectomics, unveiling a comprehensive wiring diagram of the fruit fly visual system. The work has been released on the ...

A National Institutes of Health initiative seeks to map the connections of the healthy human brain and provide a huge reference database freely available to researchers worldwide. The five-year “Human ...

Traits like IQ, memory, and the tendency to use drugs are related to the number of brain connections we have, according to a new study. The researchers found that people with more traits the ...

The website of the Open Connectome Project, founded by Joshua Vogelstein and Randal Burns of the Whiting School (along with Vogelstein's brother Jacob and PhD student Eric Perlman), states its purpose ...