Connectomics is big data for the brain.
Combined with high powered data analytics and machine learning, it is providing doctors and researchers the most comprehensive model of the human brain to date, and may answer century old questions about cognition, neurological and mental illnesses, and what makes us human.
References:
Glasser, M. F., Coalson, T. S., Robinson, E. C., Hacker, C. D., Harwell, J., Yacoub, E., Ugurbil, K., Andersson, J., Beckmann, C. F., Jenkinson, M., Smith, S. M., & Van Essen, D. C. (2016). A multi-modal parcellation of human cerebral cortex. Nature, 536(7615), 171–178.
Images taken from The Human Connectome Project http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/gallery/
Visualizations generated by Omniscient software
