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🧵 First-Ever Complete Map of an Adult Fruit Fly’s Brain

Anonymous No. 16418514

https://flywire.ai/gallery

zoom with a mouse wheel next to x,y,z in top left corner.

I see big trees colored with a single color. Is that a single neuron? The whole tree is a single neuron? I thought neurons don't branch, they are like single line segments inside a tree.

Anonymous No. 16418693

>>16418514
You can also open the layer side panel in the upper right corner, there is an icon that says "Show layer side panel".

You can show/hide those colored trees using that panel.

Anonymous No. 16418697

>>16418514
nice one but they did the same thing for some worm as well.
nothing ever came out of it.

Anonymous No. 16418709

>>16418697
>nothing ever came out of it.
What do you mean?
We have a map.

Anonymous No. 16418737

>>16418514
wow, they are really single neurons, that's crazy!

Here (https://flywire.ai/discover/thermo_pathway) it says:
> Here is a 4 neuron pathway from a thermosensory neuron on the R to the DNa01 neuron on left (explains how noxious temp would drive turning away from the source).
and there 4 big trees in the picture.

I didn't know that neurons could branch so much.

Anonymous No. 16420079

>>16418737
Why did they always show neurons as these little line segments when in fact they look like giant trees?
Fucking pop science misinformation.

Anonymous No. 16420193

>>16418514
>I see big trees colored with a single color. Is that a single neuron?
the ones that resemble purkinje cells? yes
>I thought neurons don't branch, they are like single line segments inside a tree.
typically both axons and dendrites branch, but sensory neurons often do not

>>16418697
c. elegans (nematode)
nothing came from it because nematode brains only operate on valence signals
i.e. turn if danger or continue if food
the fly brain - i assume d. melanogaster - is very interesting because of e.g. the mushroom body

>>16418737
look at the mouselight project - some single neurons loop around the entire mouse brain

>>16420079
lol, some neurons (e.g. pyramidal) have multiple points of integration
pop science misinformation is everywhere
mathfags still think point-neuron models are good enough

Anonymous No. 16420553

>>16418514
took them long enough, geez

Anonymous No. 16420899

https://flywire.ai/discover/gaba_large is interesting
these are inhibitory neurons that look like they project to (inhibit) entire visual areas

Anonymous No. 16421523

>>16418737
A fruit fly should have around 150 000 neurons according to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_neurons

Are there that many neurons on OP's image?

Anonymous No. 16421601

>>16421523
no
you can only see a subset because theyre so densely packed

Anonymous No. 16421737

so can we start running simulations? Can I put a virtual fly in a virtual environment and use this brain network to determine what a fly would do in response to different stimuli?

Anonymous No. 16421830

>>16421737
its just the connectome - the parameters for each neuron and synapse are not included

Anonymous No. 16421937

>>16420193
>lol, some neurons (e.g. pyramidal) have multiple points of integration
Are you talking about two neurons having many points of connection with each other?
Seems like there would be a loss of information.
How would a next neuron distinguish between signals that came from different points of connection?

Let's say there are 3 neurons: A, B, C.
A connects to B in many points, and then B connects to C.
There are many points of connection between A and B: we may call them AB1, AB2, AB3, etc.
There is no way for C to distinguish between AB1 and AB2, that information is lost.

Anonymous No. 16421960

>>16421737
what's there to simulate?
>rub front legs together cunningly
'>take off without warning
>fly backwards while bumping into glass

Anonymous No. 16421971

>>16421960
>rub front legs together cunningly
Lol they really do be like that

Anonymous No. 16421985

>>16421960
they also dance and fuck, I believe

Anonymous No. 16422057

>>16421937
>Are you talking about two neurons having many points of connection with each other?
no, two points of integration, e.g.:
apical dendrites integrate inputs separately from basal dendrites
if the apical point of integration exceeds threshold, it modulates the behaviour of the neuron
i forgot how it works but it should be in this book:
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=D61C32E77E2565564193FB90200D005D

Anonymous No. 16424027

Interesting visualization. Neurons actually do branch extensively, forming complex tree-like structures called dendritic trees. What you're seeing likely represents a single neuron with its many branching dendrites, not an actual tree. Neurons aren't simple line segments, but intricate networks of branches that receive and integrate signals from other neurons.