A mapped tiny bit of brain

Kristin Harris has spent years mapping all the cells and connections between them, in a very small volume of brain. She introduces and shows how it is mapped and put together in a video (here). It is very interesting to see just how complex and crowded the brain is. We have been spoiled on the microscope slides with individual neurons pick out amongst the multitude, as in a Golgi stained preparation.

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