New Project Maps the Wiring of the Mind

And a Great stroke association would make sure there were a number of recent survivors and long-term survivors included in the scans.
http://discovermagazine.com/2013/jan-feb/36-new-project-maps-the-wiring-of-the-mind#.UQCo7WeC91Y

Project to trace all the brain's main neural pathways begins its first human imaging.

A group of scientists planning to map all the major connections in the human brain began studying their first test subjects in August. The $30 million Human Connectome Project will trace the main neural pathways that link the roughly 500 major regions in the brain, illuminating how biological circuitry underlies our mental functions. MRI scans of 1,200 people, including 300 pairs of twins, will be used to compile an atlas of communication routes throughout the brain. The resulting blueprint will also reveal how brain connectivity varies from person to person.
The Human Connectome Project’s scans will achieve only a fairly rough resolution of about 1 millimeter (0.04 inch), analogous to mapping the world’s highways and boulevards while skipping local streets. But that will still represent a huge advance, since scientists currently have no global brain map at all. “Until now we’ve had only a fragmentary understanding of who is talking to whom in the brain,” says David Van Essen of Washington University in St. Louis, one of the principal investigators. “It was a lot of noisy information.”