Connectome Project MRIs

Over the next five years, the National Institutes of Health will be funding a $40m project to scan the brains of 1,200 people to gain greater understanding of brain architecture and how neurological disorders arise.  By showing individual differences in neural “wiring,” investigators hope to sub-classify diseases like autism and schizophrenia.  New MRI techniques-“diffusion imaging” and “functional connectivity”-and greater computational ability will create the data base which, like the Human Genome, opens a scientific highway into the brain for investigators worldwide.       MORE

Image Credit: Source: David Van Essen, Ph.D., Washington University and NIMH