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SCIENCE STUDIO: Connectome

USC Dornsife, Peter Zhaoyu Zhou

  Larry Swanson is the Milo Don and Lucille Appleman Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California, Neurobiology Section.  He joins us to talk about connectomes, the circuitry of the brain, and how this area of research began with the unraveling of the human genome.  Computers are having a revolutionary impact on discovering on how the brain works and how different types of dementia affect the brain. 

Aired Nov. 1, 2015

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