Main description:

Atlas of the Human Brain, Fifth Edition presents the anatomy of the brain at macroscopic and microscopic levels, featuring different aspects of brain morphology and topography with the most detailed and accurate delineations of brain structure. This new edition also features new diffusion tensor images (DTI), selected fiber tracts derived from tractography and depicted as "stipplings". It also includes annotated MR- and DT-images of the human brainstem. Totally new in this edition is the cortex map of von Economo and Koskinas in addition to the inclusion of Nissl plates with delineating of cortical areas (Brodmann's areas) in serial histological sections.

This is an essential guide to those working with human brain imaging or attempting to relate their observations on experimental animals to humans.

Contents:

I Overview

II Background Information
A. Previous Editions
B. The Two Components of this Atlas (What is New in the 5th Edition?)
1: Three Atlases of the Brain in the Head
2: Atlas of the Human Brain in Stereotaxic (MNI) Space (AHB)
C. How to Use this Atlas (Layout of the Book)
D. Reproduction of Figures by Users of the Atlas
E. Acknowledgements and Dedication

III Three Atlases of the Brain in the Head
A: Materials and Methods
1 Anatomical Preparations
2 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
3 Preparation and Photography of the Anatomical Slices
4 Preparation of 100m Thick Frozen Histological Brain Sections
5 Presentation of the Images for the Three Atlases
B: Axial (Horizontal) Atlas
C: Coronal Atlas
D: Sagittal Atlas

IV Myelo-, Cytoarchitectonic and Connectomic Atlas of the Brain in Stereotaxic (MNI) Space
A: Material and Methods
1 The Brain
2 Methods
3 Earlier Histological, Morphometric and Immunohistochemical Studies
4 Nomenclature
5 Photographic Plates and Corresponding Diagrams
6 Three-Dimensional Reconstructions
7 Standardization
8 Mapping of the Atlas Space to the MNI/ICBM2009b Template
9 Use of the Atlas for the Interpretation of Individual in vivo Brains
10 Mapping of the Cortex Areas
11 Layout of the Myelo- and Cytoarchitectonic Stereotaxic Atlas in MNI Space
B: Coronal Sections and Diagrams
1 Surface Views
2 Surface Maps
3: Plates, Figures and Diagrams
C: Axial (Horizontal) Diagrams
D: Sagittal Diagrams
E: Brainstem
F: Published Studies: Referring to the Brain Represented in the Atlas of the Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates
1 Histological, Morphometric and Histochemical Studies
2 References