Microstructural Parcellation of the Human Cerebral Cortex - From Brodmann's Post-Mortem Map to in vivo Mapping with High-Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging

The year 2009 marked the 100th anniversary of the publication of the famous brain map of Korbinian Brodmann. Although a "classic" guide to microanatomical parcellation of the cerebral cortex, it is - from today's state-of-the-art neuroimaging perspective - problematic to use Brodmann&...

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Published in:Frontiers in human neuroscience 2011-02, Vol.5, p.19-19
Main Authors: Geyer, Stefan, Weiss, Marcel, Reimann, Katja, Lohmann, Gabriele, Turner, Robert
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Animal cognition
Binding sites
Brain
brain map
Brain mapping
Cerebral cortex
Cognitive ability
cortical areas
Cytoarchitecture
Laboratory animals
Localization
Magnetic resonance imaging
Mapping
Medical imaging
myeloarchitecture
Neuroimaging
Neuroscience
Neurosciences
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
quantitative T1 map
Structure-function relationships
Transmitters
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Summary:The year 2009 marked the 100th anniversary of the publication of the famous brain map of Korbinian Brodmann. Although a "classic" guide to microanatomical parcellation of the cerebral cortex, it is - from today's state-of-the-art neuroimaging perspective - problematic to use Brodmann's map as a structural guide to functional units in the cortex. In this article we discuss some of the reasons, especially the problematic compatibility of the "post-mortem world" of microstructural brain maps with the "in vivo world" of neuroimaging. We conclude with some prospects for the future of in vivo structural brain mapping: a new approach which has the enormous potential to make direct correlations between microstructure and function in living human brains: "in vivo Brodmann mapping" with high-field magnetic resonance imaging.
ISSN:1662-5161
1662-5161
DOI:10.3389/fnhum.2011.00019