What if we've been studying brain activity for decades without actually knowing how the brain is wired? Neuroscientist Olaf Sporns introduced the concept of the connectome, a complete structural map of the human brain's network, and explains why understanding connectivity is the missing foundation beneath all of functional neuroscience. Subscribe for more from the Convergent Science Network podcast series. Olaf Sporns, one of the pioneers behind the human connectome concept, joins Paul Verschure at the BCBT summer school to explain why neuroscience needs a comprehensive wiring diagram of the brain. The connectome describes the full set of structural connections between brain regions or individual neurons , the network architecture that generates all the dynamic activity researchers have been measuring for years. The conversation addresses a funda ...