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The brain activity map: imaging the activity of entire neural circuits
- Rafael Yuste1
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-14-S1-A4
© Yuste; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013
- Published: 8 July 2013
Keywords
- Animal Model
- Brain Activity
- Neural Activity
- Neural Circuit
- Emergent Property
The function of neural circuits is an emergent property that arises from the coordinated activity of large numbers of neurons. To capture this, we propose launching a large-scale, international public effort, the Brain Activity Map Project, aimed at imaging the full record of neural activity across complete neural circuits. This technological challenge could prove to be an invaluable step toward understanding fundamental and pathological brain processes.
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This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
