NEUR30004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sunway Taihulight, Real Humans, Advanced Manufacturing
11 Aug 2018
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Human brains are qualitatively different from other brains we know of, but the structure seems very similar, so the question of how big the brain is really asking how complex it is. The size of the brain is around 1. 4kg but the size is meaningless, but we need to know something about the size of its capacity to do complicated things. * but, there have been recent sensible approaches to this, using isotopic fractionator. * method of isotopic fractionator: get a brain and grind it up and then run it through a cell counter/a fluorescence activated cell counter. The fluoresce activated cell counters can get dilute concentrations of cells and run that through the single stream and a beam will count each cell as it goes past. You can also labels the cells e. g. are they neurons or are they glia etc. * cerebral cortex not particularly dense with neurons.
