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CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 346-353Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2008.08.010
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- NINDS NIH HHS [R01 NS020364, R01 NS020364-27] Funding Source: Medline
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Some neuroscentists argue that detailed maps of synaptic connectivity - wiring diagrams - will be needed if we are to understand how the brain underlies behavior and how brain malfunctions underlie behavioral disorders. Such large-scale circuit reconstruction, which has been called connectomics, may soon be possible, owing to numerous advances in technologies for image acquisition and processing. Yet, the community is divided on the feasibility and value of the enterprise. Remarkably similar objections were voiced when the Human Genome Project, now widely viewed as a success, was first proposed. We revisit that controversy to ask if it holds any lessons for proposals to map the connectome.
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