Sunday, April 1, 2012

Incredible! Science Rocks.


Web edition : ScienceNews, Thursday, March 29th, 2012


The impossibly complicated brain just got a little simpler. Instead of looking like a
 tangled mess of noodle soup, pathways in the brain are arranged more like a
package of neatly interwoven ramen noodles, a new brain scanning study reveals.
The results offer more clues to how the human brain gets built and how it has evolved.

Scientists led by Van Wedeen of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in
Boston used a scanning technique called diffusion magnetic resonance imaging that detects the
direction of traffic flow along white matter tracts, the brain’s information superhighways. The
scans revealed that these brain signals form a grid, made up of parallel and perpendicular tracts
woven together into curved sheets.
This grid is a general feature of primate brains, Wedeen and colleagues report in the March 30 Science.
Brains of rhesus monkeys, owl monkeys, marmosets and prosimian galagos contained similar
geometric patterns to those found in human volunteers, suggesting the grid’s deep evolutionary roots.
One day, doctors may be able to diagnose brain disorders by identifying variations in this
regular brain patterns.
Curved sheets of fibers in the left hemisphere of a human brain are woven together like fabric,
a new study reveals.
Credit: Courtesy of MGH-UCLA Human Connectome Project...

1 comment:

  1. Origin Of Nerved Organisms

    From
    http://universe-life.com/2012/02/03/universe-energy-mass-life-compilation/

    Life’s evolution, mass formats self-replication:

    RNA nucleotides Genes (organisms) to RNA and DNA genomes (organisms) to mono-cellular to multicellular organisms.

    Individual mono-cells to cooperative mono-cells communities, “cultures”.

    Mono-cells cultures to neural systems, then to nerved multicellular organisms.


    Dov Henis
    (comments from 22nd century)

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