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Last spring, London neuroscientist turned cartoonist Matteo Farinella published "Neurocomic," a graphic novel about a man who falls into a brain. In this illustration, taken from the book, Farinella uses a forest metaphor to depict brain cells and neurons (finely branched cells that form a vast and interconnected network) as a dense, sprawling network of intertwined tree roots and branches.
"The brain is very complex. There are billions of neurons connected in ways that we are only beginning to understand," Farinella says. Paul Lipton, a neuroscientist at Boston University, says the image illustrates the brain's structural diversity. "The brain is indeed a forest," he says, "whose trees, or neurons, are its defining feature."Image credit: Matteo Farinella
