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An international team of scientists is attempting to map the brain by finding out exactly how different parts connect to one another.

Brain injury patients may be among those to benefit from better understanding of how varying sections of the brain are interconnected.

The team, led by Dr. Yaniv Assaf of Tel Aviv University's Department of Neurobiology, is using a tool developed in his laboratory to attempt to construct the "brain atlas".

"Currently, we can map the healthy human brain past the age of puberty," explained Dr Assaf.

"But once we will assemble this atlas, we could do this scan before puberty — and maybe even in utero — to determine who's at risk for disorders like schizophrenia, so that an early intervention therapy can be applied."

The news comes after researchers at the University of Utah announced they were able to decode brain signals, potentially opening the door for severely paralysed patients to communicate simply by thought.

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