Brain Not Designed By Italians, After-All. -More Like A German On LSD Listening To Prodigy

Holy Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Batman!

Smack My Bitch Up, Hans!

So the brain isn’t a “bowl of spaghetti”?

The awesome handiwork of The Spanish Leonardo Da Vinci aside, the team of MRI-packing researchers from Harvard, MIT, BU, etc. led by Van Wedeen has come up with a new connection-map, or connectome of the brain by tracing the motion of water molecules.

And contrary to the loosely-organized chaos it had always seemed to be, the new connection map looks basically like a series of well-organized, right-angle-intersecting technicolor mohawks,


several Midtown-NYC traffic maps stacked on top of each other,


-or a boy-band hairdo from the 90s;

take your pick.


JUMP BONUS!: Must-See Video of Van Wedeen laying the smacketh downeth on the research & what it means.



Photo/Video Credits:
“Physical dimensions of the neuronal circuits of a mammal, a cephalopod and an insect”, by Santiago Ramon y Cajal

Human Connectome Map, Side View, byVan Wedeen, Martinos Center and Dept. of Radiology/Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard U. Medical School

Human Connectome Interview with Van Wedeen, NSF and Harvard


Links:
• Source: NIH News

• via: Neatorama

• More Coverage: NIH-Human Connectome Project | HCP-Consortium 1 | HCP- Consortium 2 | RDMag | ScienceMag.org | NSF-Wedeen Video | Wikipedia-Santiago Ramon y Cajal