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Sep 11, 2024

Combining the power of AI and the connectome to predict brain cell activity

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With maps of the connections between neurons and artificial intelligence methods, researchers can now do what they never thought possible: predict the activity of individual neurons without making a single measurement in a living brain.

For decades, neuroscientists have spent countless hours in the lab painstakingly measuring the activity of neurons in living animals to tease out how the brain enables behavior. These experiments have yielded groundbreaking insights into how the brain works, but they have only scratched the surface, leaving much of the brain unexplored.

Now, researchers are using artificial intelligence and the connectome—a map of neurons and their connections created from —to predict the role of neurons in the living brain. Their paper has been published in the journal Nature.

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