A Gold-Leaf Brain Lights Up With the Awesome Complexity of Neurons
8 years, 9 months ago

A Gold-Leaf Brain Lights Up With the Awesome Complexity of Neurons

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Ready to get really really meta? Dunn and Edwards designed an 8-by-12 foot representation of a single brain slice---500,000 neurons connected in a fractal web. “You can read in a magazine or a textbook that the brain has 86 billion neurons in it, but it’s just totally meaningless,” says Dunn. He and Edwards confronted that scale head-on, hand-designing and painting five to ten versions of each kind of neuron that appeared in a single representative brain slice---150 cell types in all. As the light source moves across the piece, electrical signals seem to spread from one region of the brain to another---and every viewing angle reveals a slightly different message.

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