The Connectome: A Road Map to Brain Circuitry




The Scope Radio show

Summary: Building a road map of all the nerve connections in the brain, including in the eye, is key to understanding what makes us who we are. <a href="http://medicine.utah.edu/faculty/mddetail.php?facultyID=u0060967">Bryan Jones</a>, Ph.D., an investigator at the Moran Eye Center, talks about his research building a connectome of the retina. He explains how he and his colleagues are approaching the massive project and how such work will inform an understanding of the way that the brain makes sense of the outside world and what goes wrong during disease.