PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - In the department of "I see how you thought that," researchers in Germany have created the highest resolution images of the whole brain ever. The whole brain "atlas" was ...

Researchers built a 3D image of nearly every neuron and its connections within a small piece of human brain tissue. This version shows excitatory neurons colored by their depth from the surface of ...

300 million images The brain sample came from a patient with severe epilepsy. It’s standard procedure, Lichtman said, to remove a small portion of the brain to stop the seizures, and then look ...

Because the brain sections are so fragile, working with them often creates rips and tears in the tissue. Using image-processing tools, the researchers were able to repair these small imperfections.

Now, after the lab team’s decade of close collaboration with scientists at Google, that data has turned into the most detailed map of a human brain sample ever created. 300 million images. The ...