Review
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7, 952-966 (December 2006) | doi:10.1038/nrn2012
Towards multimodal atlases of the human brain
Arthur W. Toga1, Paul M. Thompson1, Susumu Mori2, Katrin Amunts3,4 & Karl Zilles3,5 About the authors
Abstract
Atlases of the human brain have an important impact on neuroscience. The emergence of ever more sophisticated imaging techniques, brain mapping methods and analytical strategies has the potential to revolutionize the concept of the brain atlas. Atlases can now combine data describing multiple aspects of brain structure or function at different scales from different subjects, yielding a truly integrative and comprehensive description of this organ. These integrative approaches have provided significant impetus for the human brain mapping initiatives, and have important applications in health and disease.
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Author affiliations
- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.
- Institute of Medicine and Brain Imaging Centre West (BICW), Research Centre Jülich, Germany.
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
- C. & O. Vogt-Institute of Brain Research, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Correspondence to: Arthur W. Toga1 Email: toga@loni.ucla.edu
