A map of part of a mouse brain, which is expected to be generalisable to people, could help scientists understand behaviours, consciousness and even what it means to be human

They managed to do something that we haven’t done as a neuroscience community in basically all of our history, which is to be able to map the activity of neurons onto the wiring on a very large population of neurons,

A rendering of more than 1,000 brain cells out of the those reconstructed from analysis of a cubic millimetre of brain tissue from a mouse. Credit: Allen Institute. Researchers ha