Beautiful Minds: Imaging Cells of the Nervous System [Slide Show]

In the March issue of Scientific American Carl Schoonover, author of Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century , describes a new computer-modeling technique that allows researchers to zoom in on the smallest components of the active brain in 3-D. To accompany the story, we’ve collected images from his recent book , which describes the tools that scientists have used to observe the nervous system from the second century to the present.

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Beautiful Minds: Imaging Cells of the Nervous System [Slide Show]