And you thought mapping neurons was easy

There are about 85 billion neurons in one human brain. These are all branches of just one cell: a starburst neuron in the retina. The blobs are synapses, called boutons, discovered by gamers on EyeWire.

Explore them in 3D yourself on eyewire.org and join 70,000 people from 130+ countries playing a game to map the brain.

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