“Fingerprinting” the Brain
January 24, 2017 | Terry Sharrer

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Quoting directly: “A research team led by Carnegie Mellon University used diffusion MRI to measure the local connectome of 699 brains from five data sets. The local connectome is the point-by-point connections along all of the white matter pathways in the brain, as opposed to the connections between brain regions. To create a fingerprint, they took the data from the diffusion MRI and reconstructed it to calculate the distribution of water diffusion along the cerebral white matter’s fibers.” Perhaps this simply validates a long held assumption that the structural connections in the brain are unique to each individual. MORE
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