Researchers have mapped the human brain. They found more than 3,000 cell types and connections between certain nerve cells and mental illnesses. Medical doctor and neurobiologist Elisabeth Binder explains what this can mean for new therapies.
Several research teams analyzed over a million brain cells. The result is the most comprehensive neuro-atlas of the human brain to date, which includes over 3,000 cell types. The results of the “Brain Initiative” of the US health authority NIH are in 21 specialist articles in a special issue of the science magazine Science been published. The authors celebrate it as the “beginning of a new era in brain research”. Human Cell Brain Atlas. Can it help find new treatments for psychiatric illnesses?