#  Press 

 



###  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**](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/technology/good-tech-awards.html)

New York Times (December 30, 2024)

[**Jeff Lichtman on the Wiring Diagram of the Brain (audio interview)**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh7PQe_dlHk)

Sean Carrol Mindscape (December 9th, 2024)

[**Mapping the Mind**](https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/google/mapping-the-mind/3963/)

The Atlantic (November 24, 2024)

[**Connectomics: Synapse-Level Maps of the Brain’s Structure in Health and Disease (video interview)**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQDBFUzEUgw)

Psychiatric News (July 31st, 2024)

[**Most Detailed 3D Reconstruction of Human Brain Tissue Ever Produced Yields Surprising Insights**](https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2024/05/30/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**](https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/social-relevance/most-detailed-map-of-human-brain-created-by-harvard-google-scientists-634878.html)

India Times (May 30th, 2024)

[**Mapping the Brain with AI: A Revolutionary Step in Neuroscience (video)**](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2I5JEAHnXBE)

Epicenter Digital (September 17th, 2024)

[**This Is the Most Detailed Map of Brain Connections Ever Made**](https://www.wired.com/story/this-is-the-most-detailed-map-of-brain-connections-ever-made-google-harvard/)

Wired (August 15th, 2024)

[**Google and Harvard unveil most detailed ever map of human brain**](https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/world/human-brain-map-harvard-google-scn/index.html)

CNN (May 15, 2024)

[**Scientists Imaged and Mapped a Tiny Piece of Human Brain. Here’s What They Found**](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-imaged-and-mapped-a-tiny-piece-of-human-brain-heres-what-they-found-180984340/)

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’**](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/10/metro/google-harvard-brain-map-images/)

The Boston Globe (May 10th, 2024)

[**Scientists find 57,000 cells and 150m neural connections in tiny sample of human brain**](https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/09/scientists-find-57000-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**](https://www.popsci.com/science/see-the-most-detailed-map-of-human-brain-matter-ever-created/)

Popular Science (May 9th, 2024)

[**Epic science inside a cubic millimeter of brain**](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/05/the-brain-as-weve-never-seen-it/)

Havard Gazette (May 9th 2024)

[**Scientist Stories: Jeff Litchman, Connectomics Across Scales**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5f2RmLCKO4&t=12s)

June 5th, 2023

[**Mapping the brain to understand the mind**](https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2022/mapping-brain-understand-mind)

Knowable Magazine (April 22st, 2022)

[**New 3D map charted with Google AI reveals 'mysterious but beautiful' slice of human brain**](https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/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)**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YlwhGEdUpQ)

Labocine (March 30th, 2024)

[**This is your brain, in glorious color**](https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/brain-glorious-color-rcna1192)

NBC News (June 15th, 2021)

[**The Microscopists interviews Jeff W. Lichtman (video nterview)**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MCSlkslVmk)

The Microscopists (December 4th, 2020)i

[**Cartographers of the Brain: Mapping the Connectome (video panel)**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoU_GF4fc6w)

World Science Festival (April 6th, 2018)

[**Mapping Neural Connections and Their Development I (video)**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2US2yVO4us&list=PLgKuh-lKre10qVKXL6EqR08qxyHf8R7-A)

Simon's Institute (Jan 16, 2018)

[**Whole brain insights in Harvard findings**](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/07/whole-brain-insights-in-harvard-findings/)

Havard Gazette (July 10th, 2017)

[**From tiny slice, researchers lay bare beauty of mouse brain**](https://www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/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**](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/30/3d-brain-map-reveals-connections-between-cells-in-nano-scale)

The Guardian (July 30th, 2015)

[**Rainbow of dyes maps neurons' tangled paths in brain**](http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/toolbox/2015/rainbow-of-dyes-maps-neurons-tangled-paths-in-brain?utm_source=Autism+research+news+from+SFARI.org&utm_campaign=4d617c01d4-SFARI_Newsletter_20150519&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0a60ccb345-4d617c01d4-381151622)

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

[**National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected**](http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/april-29-2014-NAS-Election.html)

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

[**The Neuroscientist Who Wants To Upload Humanity To A Computer**](http://www.popsci.com/article/science/neuroscientist-who-wants-upload-humanity-computer)

*Popular Science* (May 2014 Issue)

[**Turning Science on Its Head**](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/04/turning-science-on-its-head/)

*Harvard Gazette* (April 18, 2014)

[**Connectomics: Mapping the Brain: Harvard Thinks Big 5 (video)**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4FYjkKMJlU)

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.**](http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/brain/zimmer-text)

*National Geographic* (February 2014 Issue)

[**A Voyage Into the Brain (video)**](http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/brain/voyage-video)

*National Geographic* (February 2014 Issue)

[**Deciphering Tangled Connections, Neuron by Neuron**](http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/deciphering-tangled-connections)

*HHMI Image of the Week* (January 27, 2014)

[**New Resolution**](http://bpod.mrc.ac.uk/archive/2014/1/25)

*Biomedical Picture of the Day* (January 25, 2014)

[**Holodeck: Mapping the human brain**](http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/holodeck-mapping-human-brain/)

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

[**What Makes Us Human**](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lbgw8/episodes/guide) [**(video)**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqK6eE51Ctk)

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

[**First Santiago Ramón y Cajal Professor is named: Jeff Lichtman receives inaugural five-year appointment**](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/first-santiago-ramon-y-cajal-professor-of-arts-and-sciences/)  
*Harvard Gazette News Article* (March 11, 2013)

[**A look inside the lab: New lecture series highlights research conducted at Harvard**](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/a-look-inside-the-lab/)

*Harvard Gazette* (March 27, 2013)

[**This is your Brain: Mapping the Connectome**](http://www.sciencemag.org/site/products/lst_20130118.pdf)

*Life Science Technologies* (January 18, 2013)

[**Connectomics: Jeff Lichtman at TEDxCaltech (video)**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F37kuXObIBU)

TEDx Talks (January 31st, 2013)

[**When Brain Development Goes Awry**](http://developingchild.harvard.edu/activities/shd/feature_conte_center/)  
*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**](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/06/the-growing-brain/)  
*Harvard Gazette* (June 25, 2012)

[**Study Suggests Neural Wiring Peaks at Birth and Then It’s All Downhill From There**](https://www.mcb.harvard.edu/mcb/news/news-detail/3602/study-suggests-neural-wiring-peaks-at-birth-and-then-its-all-downhill-from-there-lichtman-lab/)  
*Molecular and Cellular Biology News Update* (June 7, 2012)

[**Quest for the connectome: scientists investigate ways of mapping the brain**](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/may/07/quest-connectome-mapping-brain)

The Guardian (May 7th, 2012)

[**Study Suggests Neural Wiring Peaks at Birth and Then it's All Downhill from There (video)**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r8sbrMxXIM)

Harvard MCB (June 5th, 2012)

[**New Research Center Aims to Map Brain’s Nerve Circuits in Search for Causes of Mental Illness**](https://www.mcb.harvard.edu/mcb/news/news-detail/3568/new-research-center-aims-to-map-brains-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**](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/11/neurons-in-youth/)  
*Harvard Gazette* (November 17, 2011)

[**In Pursuit of a Mind Map, Slice by Slice**](https://lichtmanlab.fas.harvard.edu/www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/science/28brain.html)

New York Times (December 27th, 2010)

[**Insights on healthy aging: Exercise, calorie restrictions can rejuvenate older nerve synapses, study finds**](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/08/insights-on-healthy-aging/)

*Harvard Gazette* (August 2, 2010)

[**Visualizing the Brain's Linkages**](https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/visualizing-the-brains-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...**](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/02/diverse-connectomes-hint-at-genes-limits-in-the-nervous-system/)  
*Harvard Gazette* (February 9, 2009)

[**Diagrams of the Brain Paint a Colorful 'Brainbow'**](https://www.npr.org/transcripts/15886895)

NPR (November 2nd, 2007)