The Allen Institute of Brain Science launched three new projects to study the brain at a higher caliber in the hopes of helping human health.
"The brain can be considered the most complex system in life," said Hongkui Zeng, the executive vice president and director of thethree grants to learn more about the brain. The grants will be used for three different projects, including using electron microscopy technology to see brain connections at the highest resolution.
"The second phase of the brain mapping generates the wiring diagram, or the circuit diagram, for the brain,” explained Zeng. “From there, we can then defer how our brain computes information.” "That kind of data serves as a Rosetta Stone,” said Zeng. “A Rosetta Stone that will allow you to link different kinds of information about the cell together.”"If you want to know what happens in a brain with issues, you have to know what the normal brain is like first, and I think that's really the critical challenge in the field for understanding these diseases, like neuro-psychiatric diseases," said Xiaoyin Chen, assistant investigator at the Allen Institute.
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