"This place is like a giant collective intellect, " he boasts, noting that Sydney Brenner, a Nobel laureate on the Salk faculty, sits on his scientific advisory board.

FORBES: Regions

In 1972 Sydney Brenner, a biologist then at Cambridge University, decided to work out the connections of every cell in the nervous system of a small nematode worm called C. elegans.

ECONOMIST: Connectomics aims to map the atlas of the brain