Alvin Berman photograph of a cross section of a cat's brainstem, from his brain atlas.

Like star maps, these pages of the atlas of the cat brainstem enable scientists to aim their probes at specific cellular regions and to explore both the spontaneous and chemically induced activity of the neurons.
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