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Let’s welcome Mental Health Month (May) by appreciating our beautiful brains

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Self Reflect­ed was cre­at­ed over two years by a team that includ­ed neu­ro­sci­en­tists, engi­neers, physi­cists, and stu­dents, and is a hyper­de­tailed rep­re­sen­ta­tion of 500,000 neu­rons in a sagit­tal slice. Cred­it: Greg Dunn and Bri­an Edwards.

Between Thought and Expres­sion (Cere­brum):

Greg Dunn was on his way to a Ph.D. in neu­ro­science at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia when he real­ized that bring­ing the brain’s beau­ty to life was a more suit­able role for him than lab work. He start­ed in ink, inspired by Chi­nese, Japan­ese, and Kore­an paint­ings and the sim­i­lar­i­ties he found in the micro­scop­ic world of neu­rons and the macro­scop­ic world of trees, flow­ers, and oth­er land­scape images. [Read more…] about Let’s wel­come Men­tal Health Month (May) by appre­ci­at­ing our beau­ti­ful brains