NEW YORK: Move over, grey matter. A team of neuroscientists, computer specialists and engineers have released what they say “could be the most accurate map yet” of the brain, rendering 100 new regions of the brain in living colour.
The team discovered nearly 100 previously unreported regions of the organ’s wrinkly outer layer, called the cerebral cortex or grey matter.
“These new insights and tools should help to explain how our cortex evolved and the roles of its specialised areas in health and disease,” said Bruce Cuthbert of the US-based National Institutes of Health.
“One day, it may enable unprecedented precision in brain surgery”…