Blue Brain Project By: Sasha Bryukhova
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By: Sasha Bryukhova
About the Project
The Blue Brain Project was a research initiative focused on establishing a simulation-based neuroscience approach that lasted from 2005 to 2024. Led and directed by Professor Henry Markram, the Blue Brain Project wanted to find an approach to understand the brain alongside experimental, theoretical, and clinical neuroscience. Although far from the end, this project was a major development in neuroscience as it built the world's first biologically detailed reconstruction of the mouse brain. This is influential because although the mouse brain is not the same as a human brain, they are both mammal brains. Once one is understood, steps can be made to understand the other further.
