Scientists plan to establish a molecular model of the human brain

Leading universities in the world are going in the next 10 years to create a computer works on the principle of human thinking, they plan to create a complete molecular model of the human brain.

According to various news agencies, eighty of the leading universities in the world decided to join forces to create a complete molecular model of the human brain. The project, dubbed Brainome, experts are going to reach a new level of understanding of the human brain, due to the complete reconstruction of artificial means of its structure.

- Explanation of the code of the human brain will be brought to a single neuron - specific cells, which is its main structural and functional unit. As a result, scientists will be able to create with the help of computers first full analogue of the human brain - said "ITAR-TASS" with reference to the British radio station "BBC BBC».

According to some experts, the new project will lay the foundation for a revolutionary computer technology. A computer that experts from leading universities in the world are planning to develop over the next ten years, will work on the same principles on which the human brain works.

The work on the project will bring together universities from 22 countries of the European Union, Japan, China and the United States.

Brain weight normal people ranges from 1020 to 1970 grams. Brains of men weigh 100-150 grams more than the brains of women. In men, it is 2% of the total body mass, women - 2, 5%. Argued that depend on the mass of the brain human intelligence - the larger it is, the more gifted people. However, in practice, this is not always the case. For example, the brain Turgenev weighed 2012 g, and the brain of Anatole France - 1017 The heaviest brain - 2850 g - was discovered by a man who lived only 3 years old, suffered from epilepsy as psychiatric patients, and in his mind was functionally defective. Thus, the direct relationship between the mass of the brain and mental capabilities of an individual is not. But for large samples in numerous studies found a positive correlation between the mass of the brain and IQ, and between the mass of certain parts of the brain, and different measures of cognitive abilities.