Microstructural parcellation of the human cerebral cortex – from Brodmann's post-mortem map to in vivo mapping with high-field magnetic resonance imaging

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Katja eReimann¹  Gabriele eLohmann¹  Marcel Weiss¹  Stefan Geyer¹  Robert Turner¹ 

[1] Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences;

关键词: brain map;    cortical areas;    Cytoarchitecture;    myeloarchitecture;    quantitative T1 map;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fnhum.2011.00019

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

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