http://www.metafilter.com/tags/neuron Posts tagged with 'neuron' at MetaFilter. Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:56:24 -0800 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:56:24 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/56777/Its%2Dall%2Din%2Dyour%2Dhead <a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1906/cajal-bio.html">Ram&#0243;n y Cajal</a> fathered a new <a href="http://www.sfn.org/">science</a> with his <a href="http://www.psu.edu/nasa/cajal2.htm">elegant sketches</a> of neurons. Since then, the brain has been visualized in a variety of ways: from the <a href="http://www.denniskunkel.com/advanced_search_result.php?keyword=neuron&x=0&y=0&search_in_description=1">microscopic</a> to the <a href="http://www.cmrr.umn.edu/research/fmri.shtml">functional</a>, from the <a href="http://fbim.fh-regensburg.de/~saj39122/jfroehl/diplom/e-12-text.html">abstract</a> to the <a href="http://www.greenspine.ca/en/framed.html">beautiful</a>. The <a href="http://compbiol.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pcbi.0010042">connectome</a>, intellectual heir to the <a href="http://www.genome.gov/">human genome project</a> and <a href="http://ncrr.pnl.gov/">proteomics</a>, aims to map the entire brain network as a means of understanding cognition and behavior. Pick your favorite brain metaphor <a href="http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/">here.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.56777 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:56:24 -0800 brain connectome network networks neuron neuroscience logicpunk