09 October 2024
Total Connection
The wiring diagram of a whole adult female fruit fly brain. This map or connectome represents the 50 million chemical synapses or connections between 139,255 neurons and is helping advance understanding of the brain functioning as a whole
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- Image from work by Sven Dorkenwald and colleagues
- Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Nature, October 2024
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