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A map of the brain: Allan Jones at TEDxCaltech

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    Complexity.
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    Nothing quite embodies the word like the human brain.
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    So for centuries we've studied the complexity of the human brain using the tools and technology of the day.
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    If that's pen and paper from the age of da Vinci through advents in microscopy to be able to look more deeply into the brain to a lot of the new technologies that you've heard about today through imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, able to look a the details of the brain.
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A map of the brain: Allan Jones at TEDxCaltech
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Allan Jones joined the Allen Institute in 2003 to help start up the organization as one of its first employees. Bringing extensive expertise in project leadership and high-throughput genomics operations from prior management positions at Merck and Co., Rosetta Inpharmatics and Avitech Diagnostics, Allan was instrumental in recruiting an integrated interdisciplinary team, building the Institute's scientific operations from the ground up and successfully driving the Allen Mouse Brain Atlas to completion in 2006. He provided strategic leadership and vision through the expansion of the Institute's portfolio of large-scale, high-impact initiatives from the mouse brain atlas through to work on the human brain. Allan has broad scientific experience in genetics, molecular biology and development. He holds a B.S. degree in biology from Duke University and a Ph.D. in genetics and developmental biology from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

On January 18, 2013, Caltech hosted TEDxCaltech: The Brain, a forward-looking celebration of humankind's quest to understand the brain, by exploring the past, present and future of neuroscience. Visit TEDxCaltech.com for more details.
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15:31

  • Ariana Bleau Lugo

    It's intimidating how perfect your work is, Robert :)

  • Krystian Aparta

    Good job on the transcript. I fixed the reading speed of some subtitles where it went over 21 characters per second.

  • Madina Juarez

    Per 1:10 - 1:13 which comes out
    into your cervical spinal fluid.

    Should be cerebral spinal fluid, not cervical spinal fluid.

    Regards,

    Madina Juarez

  • Madina Juarez

    Per 3:20 - 3:23
    and small support cells
    that are glias and astrocytes

    Should read glials (as in glial cells).

  • Madina Juarez

    Per 4:57 - 4:59 and obviously it's useful => and obviously, as you saw it before

    Per 14:01 - 14:04 the underlying molecules that drive the physiological properties, => the underlying molecules that drive the electrophysiological properties,

  • Robert Tucker

    4:57 - 4:59 and 14:01 - 14:04 Yes, you're right. Thank you. Hopefully, someone can correct it.

    1:10 - 1:13 I think he actually says cervical spinal fluid. I think he could equally have said cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) but cervical here relates to the neck region of the spine, not a part of female anatomy.

    3:20 - 3:23 Glial cells, sometimes called neuroglia or simply glia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroglia)

  • Madina Juarez

    Robert, with all due respect, (1) there is no such thing as a "cervical spinal fluid". What Dr. Jones is referring to, and you can see it in the following subtitle line, is CSF. CSF is a part of central nervous system, and stands for cerebral spinal fluid, or cerebrospinal fluid (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003428.htm). (2) As far as glia/neuroglia goes, it's a plural form, you are right. However, if you want to be linguistically accurate, you would either call it glia, or glials, not "glias" as you worded it (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10869/). Regards, Madina

  • Madina Juarez

    Yes, I also hope, these get corrected. :-) Thank you!

  • Robert Tucker

    Yes, OK, thank you for the corrections Madina and Krystian. Apparently though "glias" is a valid Scrabble word and does better in English dictionaries than "glials". As for *no such thing* as "cervical spinal fluid" ... ?

  • Ariana Bleau Lugo

    Robert, Madina is right about CSF. It's the fluid that fills the space between the arachnoid membrane and the pia mater, in both brain and spine, not just the cervical area. It's a well-known medical term.

  • Robert Tucker

    Yes, I realize that Ariana. My last comment was just to point out that it also exists in the neck region. My error, my mishearing, may well have been my physicist brain thinking that things tend to drain downwards.

  • Ariana Bleau Lugo

    While passing through C1-C7 vertebrae, CSF is not changing it's name. We are not yet Doctor Universalis to know it all, are we? I think we can settle for being exceptional without being perfect :)

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