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the pineal gland, do you know anything about that? >> i have heard of it but i'm not too aware of whether it plays a special role in the mapping process. the mapping project is to look at the entire brain. there is a few different mapping projects we're talking about. whether it is a certain treating mental illness or brain disorders, we are on the verge of a great amount of improvement in our understanding of the brain. just about any project that involves the brain requires a good map. what we have had for a long time is a very imperfect one and a very rough one. you may have seen the traditional map that shows brain regions, each region being somehow implicated in certain functions. ,hat level of specificity breaking the cortex into 50 regions, a lot of that work was done in the early 20th century. there are fascinating project now that take the brains of two divers and slice them unbelievably thin. you can imagine making a hair's width size of rain and they are put on a scanner and a digital reconstruction of the brain can be made