The Human Connectome Project - Relating Brain Circuits to Behavior: David Van Essen at TEDxCaltech

David C. Van Essen is the Alumni Endowed Professor in the Anatomy & Neurobiology Department at Washington University in St. Louis. He has pioneered the use of surface-based analysis methods to characterize the structure, function, development, and connectivity of the cerebral cortex. He is Principal Investigator for the NIH Human Connectome Project, a large-scale effort to map brain circuitry and its relationship to behavior in healthy adults. His physiological and anatomical studies have provided deep insights into cortical functional organization. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neuroscience, President of the Society for Neuroscience, and Head of the Anatomy & Neurobiology Department for 20 years. He is a fellow of the AAAS and received the Raven Lifetime Achievement Award from the St. Louis Academy of Sciences and the Krieg Cortical Discoverer Award from the Cajal Club.

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[onwardandupward-tg]

How can we get/buy the cognition maps you talk of in beginning?

[hydropascal]

Reductionism vs. Holism with
You can disassemble a radio to understand how it works yet you can't understand the beautiful music it plays.

[lucyhime]

how can i get to research this?? (i'm in university)

[ahmetmutlu]

this is like trying to find the passwords of a program by looking at the motherboard of pc using thermal microscobe without knowing anything about software used :D still good way to begin anyway. but its just the beginning.and its old slow way of doing research. there is also faster technicues for researching complex things.

[Rulamah]

wow! this has speed up all connection in my skull!

[dennisholliday]

I seem to have missed the part where you demonstrate a single brain circuit affecting/causing a single behavior. Nice mapping of the brain though.

[luiscarlosnunez]

This project will increases of our understanding of the Brain in physiologic and disease status ? or is just another nice pictures of the Brain.

[MataHari]

for a second there i thought it said the human centipede project

[mousumicute]

Great information about Brain Function thanks

[yousufj]

too bad hes reading it all. it just isnt as effective if it isnt natural