Thursday, November 7, 2019

Defining Neurons in Technicolor

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Based on the NIH health information topics you requested to receive information about, we thought you'd be interested in this story from the NIH Director's Blog.

Brain Cell Atlas

Defining Neurons in Technicolor

Posted on  by Dr. Francis Collins

Can you identify a familiar pattern in this image's square grid? Yes, it's the outline of the periodic table! But instead of organizing chemical elements, this periodic table sorts 46 different types of neurons present in the visual cortex of a mouse brain.

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