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Transcript for Person of the Week: Braniac in Chief our "person
of the week." A name you likely haven't heard before, but
someone who has already had a huge impact on our lives. Tonight,
he's taking on a new and giant project. Our brains. Determined
to make science sexy. At 6'4", he was the doctor standing a
little taller than the president this week, during that big
announcement at the white house. That the nation's leading
scientists will now set out to map the hu where do you even
begin? Well, that's the challenge, of course. Because the brain
is probably the most complicated structure in the known
universe. There are about 86 billion neurons in your brain and
mine Reporter:86 billion neurons in one brain.