Connectome knowledge with Dr. Sebastian Seung, I posted about him earlier. He has a new book out- Connectome. This is something all our researchers need to know if they hope to fix broken connections.
Dr. Sebastian Seung
(MIT) is an ambitious young scientist; his goal is to unravel the
entire wiring diagram of the human brain. Considering that it took over a
decade to determine the wiring diagram for the roundworm C elegans,
which has a mere 302 neurons, it is clear that scientists can't leap
directly to the 80 billion neuron human brain. Even so, in his new book Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are, Seung makes a very good argument for the value of this long term project. In Episode 85 of the Brain Science Podcast Ginger Campbell MD talked with Dr. Seung both about the challenges and potential benefits of this work.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/brainsciencepodcast/BSP_85-Seung.mp3
transcript here, hopefully the file is not corrupted anymore.
http://www.brainsciencepodcast.com/storage/transcripts/year-6/85-brainscience-Seung.pdf
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