Branching cells in bright green on black — visual cortex

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[notes for Maya, ideas from Sha for these few sentences:

what you do in your work at Columbia
how these parts of the brain work
something interesting you learned
a thread from the neuroscience to the rest of what you do, like knowing the brain and meditation, and your guided meditation for session 8 of The Clearing

and for each scan: which visual area and which layer it was taken from, so its line can point to the right place]

/neuro

more scans

A closer view of fine green branches on black — visual cortex

Image credit: Allen Institute. The brain is drawn here from the Allen Mouse Brain Common Coordinate Framework v3 (2017 annotation, 10 µm voxels), to scale, with the region names of the Allen Institute's mouse brain ontology. The outlines are traced from the atlas and smoothed, which moves them by a median of 1.6 µm. The atlas is cut at both ends, through the olfactory bulbs and through the cerebellum and medulla, so the drawing's straight edges are where the data stops.

Allen Institute for Brain Science (2011). Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Database: Connectivity Reference Data [Dataset]. Available from connectivity.brain-map.org. RRID:SCR_008848.

Wang, Q., Ding, S.-L., Li, Y., et al. (2020). The Allen Mouse Brain Common Coordinate Framework: A 3D Reference Atlas. Cell, 181(4), 936–953.e20. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.007

the mouse brain

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Drawn from the Allen Mouse Brain Common Coordinate Framework · Image credit: Allen Institute