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graduate students spent decades taking photos of thin slices of zebra fish brains only to have computerized scanning technology do all that work faster and better. it's perhaps not fair to expect someone in the 1970s to have predicted that technological leap but i think we know enough now to say that the specific area you're talking about is relatively likely to be obsoleted by other advancements in neuroscience