Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Brain Mapping
Medial view of a halved human brain, labeled in latin. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Brain Mapping
At the start of the 20th century, a German neuroanatomist named Korbinian Brodmann parceled the human cortex into nearly 50 different areas by looking at the structure and organization of sections of brain under a microscope. “That has been pretty much the reference framework that we’ve used for 100 years,” Evans says. Now he and his coworkers are redoing Brodmann’s work as they map the borders between brain regions. The result may show something more like 100 to 200 distinct areas, providing scientists with a far more accurate road map for studying the brain’s different functions.
Related articles
Genetic Maps of the Brain Lead to Surprises
First MR images to show complete borders in human cerebral cortex
Two new brain areas mapped
Free Editor Choice: Korbinian Brodmann (1868-1918) and His Contributions to Mapping the Cerebral Cortex
NeuroPod on updating ye olde brain map
The Future of the Most Important Human Brain
3D map reveals human brain in greatest detail ever
Do Sciences and Humanities Students' Brains Differ?
Complex brain landscape controls speech
Indian scientist gets grant to map the brain
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)