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How to navigate the brain

A new brain-mapping technique has been developed to provide rapid access to brain landmarks that were previously accessible only during an autopsy.

Like explorers mapping a new planet, neuroscientists probing the brain need as many landmarks as possible to get an effective “lie of the land”.

The new mapping techniques will aid efforts to understand how the brain evolved and how it functions.

Read more at Washington University

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