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The new atlas catalogs cell types by the genes they express, which could help medical researchers tailor treatments.

On October 12, researchers published a brain atlas that maps over 3,000 types of human brain cells. Researchers hope the atlas will guide new treatments for different brain disorders.

Examining the human brain at the cellular level in more detail than ever before, scientists have identified an enormous array of cell types \u2014 more than 3,300 \u2014 populating our most complex organ, creating an atlas that may help pinpoint the cellular basis of neurological diseases and facilitate new therapeutics.

A new atlas of the human brain could help explain abilities like language – and vulnerabilities, like Alzheimer's disease.

Ambitious research yields new atlas of human brain cells

Scientists forming an international collaboration have mapped the genetic, cellular, and structural makeup of the human brain and the nonhuman primate brain. Along with new knowledge about the brain cells, they share new insights about our nervous systems cellular makeup across many regions of the brain and what makes the human brain distinctive.

A trove of studies has revealed that human brains contain at least 3,000 cell types. THE WASHINGTON POST – Scientists on Thursday unveiled the most detailed and complex portrait yet of the human brain in a dazzling catalogue of more than 3,000 types of brain cells that collectively give rise to emotion, thought, memory and […]

<p>Salk scientists, as a part of a larger National Institute of Health’s <em>Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative </em>collaboration, analyzed more than half a million brain cells from three human brains to identify previously unknown brain cell subtypes. Their research paves the way for understanding how certain brain cell types go awry in brain disorders and diseases.</p>

The most detailed atlas of the human brain ever devised includes many cell types weve never seen before.

In a tour de force for neuroscience, teams of researchers have published a voluminous set of brain-cell atlases for humans and other primates. The atlases are detailed in 21 research papers appearing in Science, Science Advances and Science Translational Medicine — and could point scientists toward new strategies for addressing mental conditions ranging from Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia to epilepsy and ADHD. “We need to understand the specifics of the human brain if...