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How Indian scientists are mapping the brain's last frontier

The free atlas uses more than 500 tissue sections and 8 chemical markers to link MRI scans with individual neurons for disease research.

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For more than a century, neuroscientists have studied the human brain much as early cartographers mapped unknown lands: piecing together a vast landscape from scattered observations. Even today, pathologists diagnosing disorders such as Alzheimer's disease typically inspect a handful of tissue samples from an organ containing some 86 billion neurons. Much of the landscape remains unseen. That is why scientists at the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre (SGBC) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) believe they have taken an important step towards filling one of neuroscience's biggest gaps.

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How Indian scientists are mapping the brain's last frontier

India's new brainstem atlas offers scientists an unprecedented map of one of the brain's least known regions.

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Indian scientists map the brain’s final frontier with landmark 3D atlas - Times Kuwait

Indian scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in neuroscience by creating what is believed to be the world’s most detailed three-dimensional atlas of the human brainstem, offering an unprecedented view of one of the brain’s most vital yet least understood regions. Developed by researchers at the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre (SGBC) at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M), the project is named ANCHOR (Atlas of Neurochemica…

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