A group of Chinese scientists has developed a new, more detailed¹ map of the human brain, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced Tuesday on its website.

 

中国科学院本周二在官网上宣布，一组中国科学家绘制出一张新的更详细的人脑明细图。
 

 

The Brainnetome atlas² is the first map of the human brain based on in vivo research, or research on living organisms. It provides important connectivity information of the human brain and is much more detailed than the currently more prevalent Brodmann map, which was based on the research of dead bodies and was developed more than 100 years ago.

 

Compared with traditional human brain maps, the Brainnetome atlas has more fine-grained functional³ brain subregions and more detailed anatomical and functional connection patterns for each area. It is expected to help researchers more accurately⁴ describe the locations of the activation⁵ or connectivity in the human brain.

 

For example, with the Brainnetome atlas, researchers will be able to accurately locate the damaged part of a brain suffering from a stroke or epilepsy, or to remove gliomatosis cerebri, a rare primary brain tumor⁶, without affecting the functional areas of the brain.

 

The Brainnetome atlas was created by a research team led by Jiang Tianzi, professor and director of the CAS Brainnetome Center and the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, in collaboration⁷ with foreign research institutions. The atlas has been released online by the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating⁸ Facility.

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