connectomics
nounEtymology From connect + -omics.
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Medicine, Neuroscience, Sciences The study of the brain in terms of wiring diagrams visualizing neural circuitry, including neurons, synapses, spines, and others.
- I believe it is fair to say that the connectome and the nascent field of connectomics are beginning to influence the ways many neuroscientists collect, analyze, and think about their data.2012, Olaf Sporns, Discovering the Human Connectome, MIT Press, →ISBN:
- The giant fiber system provides a particular opportunity for functional connectomics because the functional contributions of elements in the pathway can so readily be assayed from its behavioral output.2012, Advances in Genetics, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 121:
- Derived terms
- pathoconnectomics
- Related terms
- connectome