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  • noun biology The complete description of the structural connectivity of an organism's nervous system.

Etymologies

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From connect +‎ -ome.

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Examples

  • Even in the current speculative realm, the connectome is a fascinating, occasionally frustrating, subject.

    The Ultimate Brain Quest Daniel J. Levitin 2012

  • At the moment, researchers are working to build such a map, called a "connectome," of mouse brains, which are far less complex than human ones.

    NYT > Home Page By RITCHIE S. KING 2011

  • The connectome is a product of your genes and your experiences.

    NYT > Home Page By ASHLEE VANCE 2010

  • The connectome is a product of your genes and your experiences.

    NYT > Home Page By ASHLEE VANCE 2010

  • The work .. not only provides a comprehensive map of brain connections the brain "connectome", but also describes a novel application of a non-invasive technique that can be used by other scientists to continue mapping the trillions of neural connections in the brain at even greater resolution, which is becoming a new field of science termed "connectomics."

    Mapping the Core Zoe Brain 2008

  • Echoing the aims of the Human Genome Project the authors argue that a detailed 'connectome' is needed to fully understand how different areas of the human brain interconnect.

    Mind Hacks: October 2005 Archives 2005

  • Echoing the aims of the Human Genome Project the authors argue that a detailed 'connectome' is needed to fully understand how different areas of the human brain interconnect.

    Mind Hacks: 'Connectome' call for human brain mappers 2005

  • I've called the set of all these functions or powers of the brain the "teleome" a name that emphasizes the unabashed teleology that's required to truly make sense of the brain, and is simultaneously designed to razz the "-ome" buzzwords like 'genome' and 'connectome'.

    Mark Changizi, Ph.D.: Artificial Brains: Not in This Century Ph.D. Mark Changizi 2012

  • I've called the set of all these functions or powers of the brain the "teleome" a name that emphasizes the unabashed teleology that's required to truly make sense of the brain, and is simultaneously designed to razz the "-ome" buzzwords like 'genome' and 'connectome'.

    Mark Changizi, Ph.D.: Artificial Brains: Not in This Century Ph.D. Mark Changizi 2012

  • The institute plans to link the brain atlas to data assembled through the connectome project.

    Probing the Brain's Mysteries Robert Lee Hotz 2012

  • That only began to change after 2005, when cognitive neuroscientist Olaf Sporns of Indiana University in Bloomington called for a concerted effort to map every connection in living brains, to produce what he called the “connectome“.

    Mind the gaps: The holes in your brain that make you smart #author.fullName} 2017

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  • "In 2005, Dr. Olaf Sporns at Indiana University and Dr. Patric Hagmann at Lausanne University Hospital independently and simultaneously suggested the term "connectome" to refer to a map of the neural connections within the brain. This term was directly inspired by the ongoing effort to sequence the human genetic code—to build a genome."

    --http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Connectome&oldid=504880923

    July 31, 2012