@...@Henry Markram and colleagues have taken an engineering approach to this question by digitally reconstructing a slice of the neocortex, an area of the brain that has benefitted from extensive characterization//© Using this wealth of data, they built a virtual brain slice representing the different neuron types present in this region and the key features controlling their firing and, most notably, modeling their connectivity, including nearly 40 million synapses and 2,000 connections between each brain cell type//
@...@**The reconstruction required an enormous number of experiments,** says Markram, of the EPFL©// **It paves the way for predicting the location, numbers, and even the amount of ion currents flowing through all 40 million synapses//**