title: Untangling the Web between Eye and Brain.
abstract: How is the picture of the visual scene that the eye encodes represented by neural circuits in the brain? In this issue of Cell, Morgan et al. address this question by forming an ultrastructural "connectome" of the mouse's visual thalamus that depicts individual retinal afferents and every contact these form with target relay cells.
authors.affiliation: Boston Children's Hospital, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Harvard Medical School, 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Chinfei
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, 511 South Floyd Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA.
authors.forename: Martha E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Bickford
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 3641 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA. Electronic address: jhirsch@usc.edu.
authors.forename: Judith A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Hirsch
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain; D063132:Connectome; D012160:Retina; D013788:Thalamus; D014795:Visual Pathways