Institute of Computational Neuroscience, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany.
Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
PLoS Biol. 2022 Mar 31;20(3):e3001612. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001612. eCollection 2022 Mar.
Brain functions rely on the communication network formed by axonal fibers. However, the number of axons connecting different brain regions is unknown. A study in PLoS Biology addresses this question and finds that most areas of the human cerebral cortex are linked by an astoundingly small number of fibers.
大脑功能依赖于轴突纤维形成的通讯网络。然而,连接不同大脑区域的轴突数量尚不清楚。《公共科学图书馆·生物学》上的一项研究解决了这个问题,发现人类大脑皮层的大多数区域都是由数量惊人少的纤维连接起来的。