Display consists of six exhibits depicting progressively finer structures of the nervous system

    "Orders of magnitude" shines a light on the "growing ever more complex, the closer one looks" nature of the nervous system.

1. Hemisphere with Subcortical Structures of The Human Brain
2. A fragment of cerebral cortex with annotated gyri
3. Grey matter layers - a cross-section of cortex at cellular scale
4. Neural tissue diorama - neurons emerging from an ultrastructural image
5. "Dendrite with Synapsing Axons" Display
6. Transparent axo-dendritic synapse reconstruction with synaptic vesicles

Display features the first-ever physical model of a complete and detailed reconstruction of a real neuron.

    The 3D model used is a reconstruction of a real neuron from the MICrONS Dataset, available under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

    As far as we are aware, an accurate physical 3D model of a real neuron like this has never been created before.

Display consists of a number of white matter tract 3D models isolated from a high-resolution, dMRI scan. 

Exhibits can showcase:

• Healthy pathways such as the optic radiation,
• Pathways obstructed by pathology or mechanical injury,
• Tracts affected by neurological / psychiatric conditions, such as dopaminergic tracts

Display features an ultrastructural reconstruction of a basal dendrite and axonal segments synapsing with its spines.

    The display is a physical 3D manifestation of real data. The segments arise from an electron microscope image - the first cross section of the tissue volume that the reconstructions on display had been derived from.