# Neural Mapping
**Domain:** Neuroscience / Brain Atlases / Measurement
**Doc Type:** Concept Node
**Maturity:** Developing
**Related:** [[BRAIN Initiative]], [[Allen Institute]], [[Brain-Computer Interfaces]], [[Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure]]
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## Definition
**Neural mapping** comprises methods for representing the brain’s cells, connections, activity and functional organization across spatial and temporal scales.
## Continuity Context
Maps can improve diagnosis, modeling and reconstruction, but representational completeness is not automatically personal continuity. A map may describe a system without reproducing its ongoing causal history, embodiment or subjective point of view.
## Backlinks
[[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] · [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]] · [[BRAIN Initiative]] · [[Allen Institute]]