In the March issue of Scientific American Carl Schoonover, author of Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century, describes a new computer-modeling technique that allows researchers to zoom in on the smallest components of the active brain in 3-D. To accompany the story, we've collected images from his recent book, which describes the tools that scientists have used to observe the nervous system from the second century to the present. During the past 20 years, breakthroughs in these technologies have fueled unprecedented advances in neuroscience.

View the slide show of brain images from the lab.

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1. 1. Raghuvanshi1 01:55 AM 3/10/11

   I watch all five image of brain.My question how can we read what these image want to tell us?There are many new research happened in neuroscience but difficulties with that to read the meaning of chemical running here there is not possible.you to take help of psychoanalysis or writing of artists.You can learn more from Proust `s novel about meaning of your unconscious than research in neuroscience.

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2. 2. verdai 04:10 PM 4/3/11

   That is to be seen,
   
   so Is this; Whoever is responsible for the colors shown is just as talented.

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3. 3. RathinaveluM 03:06 AM 5/15/11

   "motor neuron axons traveling...." I could not understand, Sir/s.How can cells move in communication ?
   Kindly clarify.
   

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4. 4. RathinaveluM 03:09 AM 5/15/11

   "motor neuron axons traveling...." I could not understand, Sir/s.How can cells move in communication ?Kindly clarify.
   I am under the impression "signals" travel as change in ion concntration causing action potential travel

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