Nerve fibres in a healthy adult human brain, MRI.

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<p>Bird's eye (axial) view of nerve fibres in a normal,  healthy adult human brain. Brain cells communicate  with each other through these nerve fibres, which  have been visualised using diffusion weighted  magnetic resonance imaging (DWI MRI). Diffusion  weighted imaging is a specialised type of MRI scan  which measures water diffusion in many directions  in order to reconstruct the orientation of the nerve  fibres. Since these images are in 3D, colours have  been used to represent the direction of the fibres:  blue is for fibres travelling up/down, green for front/ back, and red for left/right. These patterns of  connectivity in the brain are being used to study  brain development and developmental disorders  such as dyslexia.</p>

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