Nature 361, 109 - 110 (14 January 1993); doi:10.1038/361109a0

Backwardness of human neuroanatomy

Francis Crick & Edward Jones

Salk Institute, PO Box 85800, San Diego, California 92186
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the Uni-versity of California, Irvine, California 92715, USA.

To interpret the activity of living human brains, their neuroanatomy must be known in detail. New techniques to do this are urgently needed, since most of the methods now used on monkeys cannot be used on humans.

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