
Following a few passes by various automated systems, human eyes provided a visual edit pass for some cells to determine whether or not the algorithms were identifying them correctly. Machine learning algorithms carefully scanned the slice to identify the different cells and their underlying structures.

A scanning electron microscope was employed next to image the sample, with a maximum resolution registering down to 4 nm. We can use it to write sonnets and build airplanes.Sure, an elephant's brain is larger, weighs more, and has more neurons, but elephants also lack our abilities. The surgical sample was then diced into roughly 5,300 slices each around 30 nanometers (nm) thick. The human brain is a knot of 100 billion neurons and support cells.We can store a lifetime of memories there. This slice was stained for added visual clarity, then coated in resin to protect and preserve it.

Now in a huge advancement, Google and the Lichtman Lab at Harvard University has presented a mind-boggling model of a micro section of the human brain, which began with a microscopic sample obtained from the temporal lobe of a human cerebral cortex. This detailed database and its visualization tools has totally altered the way that neural circuits and pathways are understood in the fly brain.
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Back in January 2020, Google released the fly “hemibrain” connectome, an online database delivering the morphological structure and synaptic connectivity of approximately half of a fruit fly brain. Functional Areas of the Brain Motor Area - Control of voluntary muscles Sensory Area - Skin sensations (temperature, pressure, pain) Frontal Lobe - Movement - Problem solving - Concentrating, thinking - Behavior, personality, mood Broca’s Area - Speech control Temporal Lobe - Hearing - Language - Memory Brain Stem - Consciousness - Breathing. By mapping how neurons in the brain are organized and examining how they communicate with one another, researchers are gaining a clearer understanding of how normal brains work and what happens.
