Interesting brain news.

 New light shed on brain structure, but more important, some reasons -why- structures are as they are.

An international team of scientists has discovered striking similarities between the human brain, the nervous system of a worm, and a computer chip. The finding is reported in the journal PloS Computational Biology today.
...

They found that all three shared two basic properties. First, the human brain, the nematode's nervous system, and the computer chip all have a Russian doll-like architecture, with the same patterns repeating over and over again at different scales.

Second, all three showed what is known as Rent's scaling, a rule used to describe the relationship between the number of elements in a given area and the number of links between them.

Fun stuff!  Read the whole thing.

The Brainy Phantom
 

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/uoc--bwa042210.php
http://phantomsoapbox.blogspot.com/