Human Brain Mapping

Bordeaux race track makes its return on the calendar with a very nice and curvy layout. France is a big motorsport nation and with this event running just 1 week before the final, it means all…

Significant advances in brain research have been made, but investigators who face the resulting explosion of data need new methods to integrate the pieces of the brain puzzle. Based on the…

Personalities come in all kinds. Now psychological scientists have found that the size of different parts of people’s brains correspond to their personalities; for example, conscientious people…

Keith Chen (TED Talk: Could your language affect your ability to save money?) might be an economist, but he wants to talk about language. For instance, he points out, in Chinese, saying “this…

A much more detailed neuroanatomical picture is apparent in gross or histological slices, or sections, through the brain. In these sections, deep structures that are not visible from any brain…

Google has updated its mapping applications with new, higher-resolution imagery from NASA s Landsat 8 satellite, the company announced today. That means Google Maps and Google Earth now contain…

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Without muscle, humans could not live. The primary job of muscle is to move the bones of the skeleton, but muscles also enable the heart to beat and constitute the walls of other important hollow…

Cover photo: Lace Brain by Michel Thiebaut de Schotten/Benedicte Batrancourt. ​More than twenty years have passed since a small community of brain enthusiasts gathered in Paris in 1995 to establish…

Functional neuroimaging of the brain, in both humans and other species, continues to provide crucial insights into structure–function relationships across a wide range of cognitive, affective…

Skull: bony structure enclosing and protecting the brain. The eight cranial bones in an adult are fused to each other by means of sutures. temporal bone Flat skull bone that protects mainly the…

It’s a long, hard road to understanding the human brain, and one of the first milestones in that journey is building a … database. In the past few years, neuroscientists have embarked on several…

Hydrocephalus is characterized by an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) within cavities inside the brain called ventricles. The brain and spinal cord form the central nervous…

A 3D view of a person s cerebral cortex. Alexander Huth Each day, as we talk to friends, family, and coworkers, and consume podcasts, movies, and other media, we are ceaselessly bombarded by…

Unlike Brodmann’s and other brain maps built using just one property (how the cells looked under a microscope, for example), the new atlas is made by combining several types of data that capture…

Identifier: annalsofsouthaf801980sout Title: Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum Year: 1898 (1890s) Authors: South African Museum Subjects: Natural history…

You don’t have to be a neurosurgeon to know it’s hard to get to the right place without a good map. But neuroscientists have been blundering around with blurry brain maps, which sometimes aren’t…

Can you point out the small squiggle of gray matter that makes up the brain s motor cortex? Or how about the eye fields, which control visual attention and eye movements? No? Take a look at this…

Scalable Brain Atlas Coronal3d About this atlas The manually annotated reference atlas, published on the web and in print: H.W. Dong, The Allen Reference Atlas, (Book + CD-ROM): A Digital Color…

The latest updates to the online public resources available through the Allen Brain Atlas data portal were released on June 9, 2016. These include the addition of new data to an existing resource…

This baby was born with a normal-size head. But MRI scans show the brain is filled with fluid and little brain tissue. The cortex of the brain is normally folded, but in this case, the cortex…

The Allen Institute for Brain Science today released a major update to its publicly available online resources at , including new information on aging, dementia and traumatic brain injury. The…

Mosaic mind: A new map of the brain’s outer surface parcels each hemisphere into 180 areas, some of which govern hearing (red), sensation and movement (green) or seeing (blue). Matthew F. Glasser…

The brain is made up of many parts, but all of these parts are divided into one of two categories. The right hemisphere and the left hemisphere are the two main parts of the brain. The cells…