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The Human Connectome Project - Mapping the Human Brain


The Human Connectome Project, or HCP, has brought the combined brainpower of 36 investigators — including six from the University of Minnesota —from 11 different institutions to bear on the challenges of understanding the human brain. Now just past the midpoint, the five-year, $30 million research effort is mapping the vast network of neurons and the trillions of interconnections that compose this elaborate organ.

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http://www.mmf.umn.edu/mb/features/stories/Mapping-the-Human-Brain/