An ultra detailed map of the brain region that controls movement, from mice to monkeys to humans

Amazing stuff! Mapping the brain in great detail! What an Herculean effort!

"... The massive BRAIN Initiative-funded collaboration involved dozens of research teams around the country who worked together to complete a cell-by-cell atlas of the primary motor cortex, a part of the mammalian brain that controls movement. Combining more than a dozen different techniques to define brain “cell types” across three different species of mammals, the resulting open-access data collection is by far the most comprehensive and detailed map of any part of the mammalian brain ever released. The researchers classified the millions of neurons and other kinds of brain cells present in the motor cortex into many different cell-type categories — the actual number of different brain cell types in this region depends on how they are being measured, but ranges from several dozen to more than 100. ..."

An ultra detailed map of the brain region that controls movement, from mice to monkeys to humans Hundreds of neuroscientists built a ‘parts list’ of the motor cortex, laying groundwork to map the whole brain and better understand brain diseases

Brain Initiative Cell Census Network