The generation of scanning tools now emerging will for the first time provide spatial and temporal resolution capable of observing in real time the performance of individual dendrites, spines, and synapses. These tools will quickly lead to a new generation of higher-resolution models and simulations. Once the nanobot era arrives in the 2020s we will be able to observe all of the relevant features of neural performance with very high resolution from inside the brain itself. Sending billions of nanobots through its capillaries will enable us to noninvasively scan an entire working brain in real
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