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Smithsonian Magazine reports on Shapson-Coe et al., 2024

"Scientists Imaged and Mapped a Tiny Piece of Human Brain" by Will Sullivan

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The 2024 Good Tech Awards

New York Times (December 30, 2024) 

Jeff Lichtman on the Wiring Diagram of the Brain (audio interview)

Sean Carrol Mindscape (December 9th, 2024)

Mapping the Mind

The Atlantic (November 24, 2024)

Connectomics: Synapse-Level Maps of the Brain’s Structure in Health and Disease (video interview)

Psychiatric News (July 31st, 2024)

Most Detailed 3D Reconstruction of Human Brain Tissue Ever Produced Yields Surprising Insights

NIH (May 30th, 2024)

Harvard & Google Scientists Create Most Detailed Map Of Human Brain From Rice Grain-sized Sample

India Times (May 30th, 2024)  

Mapping the Brain with AI: A Revolutionary Step in Neuroscience (video)

Epicenter Digital (September 17th, 2024)

This Is the Most Detailed Map of Brain Connections Ever Made

Wired (August 15th, 2024)

Google and Harvard unveil most detailed ever map of human brain

CNN (May 15, 2024)

Scientists Imaged and Mapped a Tiny Piece of Human Brain. Here’s What They Found

Smithsonian Magazine (May 10th, 2024)

Harvard scientists unveil the most detailed map of the brain ever: ‘It’s an alien world inside your own head’

The Boston Globe (May 10th, 2024) 

Scientists find 57,000 cells and 150m neural connections in tiny sample of human brain 

The Guardian (May 10th, 2024)

See the most detailed map of human brain matter ever created

Popular Science (May 9th, 2024)

Epic science inside a cubic millimeter of brain

Havard Gazette (May 9th 2024)

Scientist Stories: Jeff Litchman, Connectomics Across Scales

June 5th, 2023

Mapping the brain to understand the mind

Knowable Magazine (April 22st, 2022)

New 3D map charted with Google AI reveals 'mysterious but beautiful' slice of human brain

Live Science (May 17, 2024)

Neurons as Living Creatures ~ In Conversation with Jeff Lichtman (video interview)

Labocine (March 30th, 2024)

This is your brain, in glorious color

NBC News (June 15th, 2021)

The Microscopists interviews Jeff W. Lichtman (video nterview)

The Microscopists (December 4th, 2020)i

Cartographers of the Brain: Mapping the Connectome (video panel)

World Science Festival (April 6th, 2018) 

Mapping Neural Connections and Their Development I (video)

Simon's Institute (Jan 16, 2018)

Whole brain insights in Harvard findings

Havard Gazette (July 10th, 2017)

From tiny slice, researchers lay bare beauty of mouse brain

The Transmitter (July 30th 2015)

3D brain map reveals connections between cells in nano-scale

The Guardian (July 30th, 2015)

Rainbow of dyes maps neurons' tangled paths in brain

Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative News (May 13, 2015)

National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected

News from the National Academy of Sciences (April 29, 2014)

The Neuroscientist Who Wants To Upload Humanity To A Computer

Popular Science (May 2014 Issue)

Turning Science on Its Head

Harvard Gazette (April 18, 2014)

Connectomics: Mapping the Brain: Harvard Thinks Big 5 (video)

Harvard University (March 20th, 2014)

Secrets of the Brain: New technologies are shedding light on biology's greatest unsolved mystery: how the brain really works.

National Geographic (February 2014 Issue)

A Voyage Into the Brain (video)

National Geographic (February 2014 Issue)

Deciphering Tangled Connections, Neuron by Neuron

HHMI Image of the Week (January 27, 2014)

New Resolution

Biomedical Picture of the Day (January 25, 2014)

Holodeck: Mapping the human brain

Cosmos: The Science of Everything (October 14, 2013)

What Makes Us Human (video)

BBC Horizon's Television Show (July 3, 2013)

First Santiago Ramón y Cajal Professor is named: Jeff Lichtman receives inaugural five-year appointment
Harvard Gazette News Article (March 11, 2013)

A look inside the lab: New lecture series highlights research conducted at Harvard

Harvard Gazette (March 27, 2013)

This is your Brain: Mapping the Connectome

Life Science Technologies (January 18, 2013)

Connectomics: Jeff Lichtman at TEDxCaltech (video)

TEDx Talks (January 31st, 2013)

When Brain Development Goes Awry
Center on the Developing Child at Harvard Research Feature on Conte Center (September 27, 2012)

The growing brain: Experience determines which connections remain, research suggests
Harvard Gazette (June 25, 2012)

Study Suggests Neural Wiring Peaks at Birth and Then It’s All Downhill From There
Molecular and Cellular Biology News Update (June 7, 2012) 

Quest for the connectome: scientists investigate ways of mapping the brain

The Guardian (May 7th, 2012)

Study Suggests Neural Wiring Peaks at Birth and Then it's All Downhill from There (video)

Harvard MCB (June 5th, 2012)

New Research Center Aims to Map Brain’s Nerve Circuits in Search for Causes of Mental Illness
Molecular and Cellular Biology News Update (November 22, 2011)

Neurons in Youth: Harvard study of brain development may shed light on disorders
Harvard Gazette (November 17, 2011)

In Pursuit of a Mind Map, Slice by Slice

New York Times (December 27th, 2010)

Insights on healthy aging: Exercise, calorie restrictions can rejuvenate older nerve synapses, study finds

Harvard Gazette (August 2, 2010)

Visualizing the Brain's Linkages

Discover Magazine (August 1, 2010)

Diverse ‘connectomes’ hint at genes’ limits in the nervous system: Neurons in a small mouse muscle vary markedly in layout...
Harvard Gazette (February 9, 2009)

Diagrams of the Brain Paint a Colorful 'Brainbow'

NPR (November 2nd, 2007)