"Mapping an entire human brain would need a data set that is a further 1000 times larger, a zettabyte, which Lichtman says is “comparable to the amount of digital content generated in a year by the planet Earth”."
"A more immediate benefit would be to explore how the cell map differs in people with mental health conditions, says Dulac. “Similar studies could be done in patients that also have some mental illness,” she says, to shed more light on how conditions like schizophrenia manifest.
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Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2279937-google-has-mapped-a-piece-of-human-brain-in-the-most-detail-ever/#ixzz6x6pcVRwP
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