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RJ Mackenzie

Map of 600,000 brain cells rewrites the textbook on how the brain makes decisions

A colored diagram of different neurons in the mouse brain.

Researchers have completed the first-ever activity map of a mammalian brain in a groundbreaking duo of studies, and it has rewritten scientists' understanding of how decisions are made.

The project, involving a dozen labs and data from over 600,000 individual mouse brain cells, covered areas representing over 95% of the brain. Findings from the research, published in two papers in the journal Nature, suggest that decision-making involves far more of the brain than previously thought.

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