Neuroscience: Making connections (original) (raw)

By turning neurons technicolour, Jeff Lichtman exposed the brain's wiring. Jonah Lehrer meets the 'unapologetic cell biologist' with ambitions to map every connection in the human brain.

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Jonah Lehrer is a freelance writer based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Lehrer, J. Neuroscience: Making connections.Nature 457, 524–527 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/457524a

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