Chinese Journal of Nature ›› 2014, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (3): 186-191.

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New big science in this century: connectomics

LÜ Bao-zhong   

  1. Professor, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai 200032, China
  • Online:2014-06-25 Published:2014-06-25

Abstract: A lot of ’omes have appeared since post-genome era, in which connectome is, of course, the most attractive. The id-egosuperego theory of Freud was welcomed after 1930s. The advances in neuroscience particularly neural Darwinism including the impact of human language are a framework for further study on brain. Connectomics for assembling and analyzing connectome data sets should be a new big science in this century.