I'll refer to this whole arrangement as the "wiring" of your brain

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A note for Lesson no. 2, "Your Brain Is a Network," in Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Some context from page 31–33 is:

This arrangement of axons, dendrites, and synapses knits your 128 billion individual neurons into a network. To make things simpler, I’ll refer to this whole arrangement as the “wiring” of your brain.

The appendix adds:

The simple term wiring, as I use it, stands in for more specific structural details.

A useful reference for this appendix entry is Kandel et al.[1]


References

  1. Kandel, Eric R., Ben A Barres and A. J. Hudspeth. 2013. "Nerve Cells, Neural Circuitry and Behavior." In Principles of Neural Science, edited by Eric R. Kandel et. al, 21-38. New York: McGraw Hill.