One of the major challenges of modern neuroscience is to define the complex pattern of neural connections that underlie cognition and behaviour. This atlas capitalises on novel diffusion MRI tractography methods to provide a comprehensive overview of connections derived from virtual in vivo tractography dissections of the human brain.
"The Atlas of Human Brain Connections capitalises on novel diffusion MRI tractography methods to provide a comprehensive overview of connections derived from virtual in vivo tractography dissections of the human brain. The book introduces the reader to the fundaments of human brain organization as derived from the study of the surface, sectional and connectional anatomy."--Publisher website
Long awaited, the Third Edition represents a thorough revision of this widely-used atlas. It takes into account the advances in computer-assisted brain-imaging techniques that do not restrict the plane of study and the recent progress in identifying and localizing putative neurotransmittersand neuromodulators in the brain. New sections offer coronal views of the gross brain and brain stem, biochemical neuroanatomy, magnetic resonance images, and recent computerized tomographic scans. In addition, many refinements have been made in the illustrations retained from earlier editions. Asbefore, only the highest quality photomicrographs have been included.
The Brain Atlas: A Visual Guide to the Human Central Nervous System integrates modern neuroscience with clinical practice and is now significantly revised and updated for a Fourth Edition. The book's five sections cover: Background Information, The Brain and Its Blood Vessels, Brain Slices, Histological Sections, and Pathways. These are depicted in over 350 high quality intricate figures making it the best available visual guide to human neuroanatomy.
This book has brought together leading investigators who work in the new arena of brain connectomics. This includes ‘macro-connectome’ efforts to comprehensively chart long-distance pathways and functional networks; ‘micro-connectome’ efforts to identify every neuron, axon, dendrite, synapse, and glial process within restricted brain regions; and ‘meso-connectome’ efforts to systematically map both local and long-distance connections using anatomical tracers. This book highlights cutting-edge methods that can accelerate progress in elucidating static ‘hard-wired’ circuits of the brain as well as dynamic interactions that are vital for brain function. The power of connectomic approaches in characterizing abnormal circuits in the many brain disorders that afflict humankind is considered. Experts in computational neuroscience and network theory provide perspectives needed for synthesizing across different scales in space and time. Altogether, this book provides an integrated view of the challenges and opportunities in deciphering brain circuits in health and disease.
This unique atlas of the human brain correlates classical studies of post mortem tissue with thein situ, cross-sectional brain and MRIs of the same brainin vitrowithin vivoimages from living individuals. The atlas contains a series of maps, each featuring different aspects of brain morphology and topography. The atlas is divided into two section: the Topographic and Topometric Atlas and the Myeloarchitectonic Atlas. Topographic and Topometric Atlas This atlas presents the surface anatomy of the brain over a topometric grid, together with correspondingin situsections of the entire head, placed on stereotaxic grids. * Sections are cut at regular, 1-cm thick intervals in all planes of section * Both sides of section are shown * Includes corresponding X-rays and MRIs of the same head and anin vivoMRI from a healthy volunteer Myeloarchitectonic Atlas This atlas presents 69 myelin-stained sections cut perpendicular to the intercommissural line depicting mainly subcortical structures. Each plate has corresponding schematic diagrams defining position, extent, and relationship of nuclei and pathways of the forebrain and mesencephalon. * The most comprehensive delineations available; suitable for mapping of neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, and receptors * Sections are from a reference brain used by preeminent neuroanatomists: Vogts, Brockhaus, Hassler, Wahren, Hopf, and Sanides * Includes 4 pages of 36 reduced figures showing gyrification and subcortical detail
The Second Edition of Atlas of the Human Brain and Spinal Cord offers the essentials of neuroanatomy in a newly revised format. This atlas allows students to synthesize a three-dimensional concept of the major motor and sensory systems of the human brain and spinal cord by providing a photographic survey of the macroscopic and microscopic structure of the central nervous system. It is organized into 5 sections and covers material on gross anatomy, spinal cord, brain stem, coronal sections, axial sections, parasagittal sections, arteries and angiograms, neuroanatomical lesions, nuclear magnetic images of brain tumors, and more. In addition to the high quality plates that made the first edition a best-seller, the second edition now features A new section on Case Studies of Brain Tumors and Degenerative Diseases of the CNS, Vertebral and carotid digital subtraction angiography, New 2-color design, A mini-atlas of thick stained sections of the brain in the three orthogonal planes, and New angiograms, MRI brain scans, refined illustrations, and myelin-stained plates.
Current atlases based on DTI provide a useful complement to monkey atlases derived from axonal tracing methods and allow indirect comparison across species, but they leave roughly 50% of the human brain connections unmapped. This atlas fills that gap, offering the first comprehensive coverage of human white matter connections. Using novel tractography methods developed in the Catani lab it both enables visualization of tracts not present in recently published atlases due to the limitations of the DT mode and depicts in detail the anatomy of short U-shaped fibers. 180 pages of sagittal, axial and coronal images are included. Provides tractography of long white matter pathways acquired with cSD, a new method more accurate than traditional Diffusion Tensor Imaging The first atlas to provide tractography of short white matter pathways Enables researchers to learn more about white matter connections in the human brain and compare them with what is known about such connections in the brains of nonhuman primates
