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Daniel Witvliet
@dwitvliet
Living the life as a Data Scientist at Coursera. Feel free to reach if you want to know what that's like! Opinions are my own and not my employer's. he/him/his.
Apr 30, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
How does brain wiring change after birth? We tried to answer that question by mapping the wiring diagrams, or connectomes, of eight C. elegans brains across different life stages.

See our preprint (and this thread) for the insights we found: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

1/9 Image The size of neurites in the brain as well as the number of synapses increase significantly from birth to adulthood. Neurite growth is mostly uniform, maintaining the three-dimensional structure of the brain.

But synapse formation is not uniform throughout the brain..

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