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> The brain fragment was taken from a 45-year-old woman when she underwent surgery to treat her epilepsy. It came from the cortex, a part of the brain involved
by theogravity 2y ago
> The brain fragment was taken from a 45-year-old woman when she underwent surgery to treat her epilepsy. It came from the cortex, a part of the brain involved in learning, problem-solving and processing sensory signals.
Wonder how they figured out which fragment to cut out.
- pfdietz 2y agoI imagine they determined the focus of the seizures by electrical techniques. I worry this might make the sample biased in some way.
- notfed 2y agoImagine all the conclusions being made from a 1cm cube of epileptic neurons.
- creer 2y agoConsidering the success of this work, I doubt this is the last such cubic millimeter to be mapped. Or perhaps the next one at even higher resolution. No worries.
- seesawtron 2y agoA similar dataset already exists in mouse cortex. More are underway in the field. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.22.586254v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.22.586254v1
- sgt101 2y agoThe manuscript gives some details in the context of the difficulty of obtaining larger useful samples in the future and the difficulty of understanding if a sample is typical or pathological.