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It focuses on the building blocks of the brain, starting with cells," said Joseph Ecker, a biologist at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, US, who led one of the 21 studies.

Anatomists have spent centuries creating atlases of the brain — mapping its subdivisions, folds (gyri) and grooves (sulci).

More recently, neuroscientists have turned their efforts to understanding how these brain cells, and the regions they are in, function — how they contribute to emotions, vision, or pain, or to disease states like schizophrenia or dementia.

We’re now getting closer to this," said Patrick Hof, a neuroscientist at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, US, who led one of the BRAIN Initiative studies.

Hof’s study, meanwhile, created a Google maps-like tool of Broca’s area; a region of the motor cortex that controls speech and language.

It’s a tremendously important aspect that’s opening doors to new discoveries," said Jan Bjaalie, a neuroscientist at the University of Oslo, Norway.

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