El Conectoma, futuro de las Neurociencias

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Sebastian Seung está trazando un nuevo modelo tremendamente ambicioso del cerebro que se centra en las conexiones interneuronales. Él lo llama "conectoma" y es tan individual como nuestro genoma y entenderlo podría abrir una nueva manera de entender nuestro cerebro y nuestra mente.

Speakers Sebastian Seung: Computational neuroscientist

Sebastian Seung is a leader in the new field of connectomics, currently the hottest space in neuroscience, which studies, in once-impossible detail, the wiring of the brain.

Why you should listen to him:

In the brain, neurons are connected into a complex network. Sebastian Seung and his lab at MIT are inventing technologies for identifying and describing the connectome, the totality of connections between the brain's neurons -- think of it as the wiring diagram of the brain. We possess our entire genome at birth, but things like memories are not "stored" in the genome; they are acquired through life and accumulated in the brain. Seung's hypothesis is that "we are our connectome," that the connections among neurons is where memories and experiences get stored.