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\"Untangling<\/a>Randal Burns, a computer scientist, and Joshua Vogelstein, PhD \u201910, a biomedical engineer, are part of a multi-institution team using a $10 million NIH Transformative Research Award grant to decipher the structure of the brain\u2019s trillions of synapses in hopes of solving the mystery behind many psychiatric illnesses. \u201cIt has been suggested that many psychiatric disorders are fundamentally \u2018connectopathies,\u2019 that is, disorders of the connections in the brain,\u201d said Vogelstein. \u201cOur aim is to discover what causes traffic jams in the neural information highway.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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