Overview

The fourth edition of Atlas of the Human Brain presents the anatomy of the brain at macroscopic and microscopic levels, featuring different aspects of brain morphology and topography. This greatly enlarged new edition provides the most detailed and accurate delineations of brain structure available. It includes features which assist in the new fields of neuroscience – functional imaging, resting state imaging and tractography. Atlas of the Human Brain is an essential guide to those working with human brain imaging or attempting to relate their observations on experimental animals to humans.

New Features

Totally new in this edition is the inclusion of Nissl plates with delineation of cortical areas (Brodmann's areas), the first time that these areas have been presented in serial histological sections.

- Winner of the 2016 British Medical Association Award for Best Illustrated Text and previous edition winner of the Award of Excellence from the American Association of Publishers

- The contents of the Atlas of the Brain in MNI stereotaxic space have been extensively expanded from 143 pages, showing 69 levels through the hemisphere, to 314 pages representing 99 levels.

- In addition to the fiber-stained (myelin) plates, fifty new (Nissl) plates covering cytoarchitecture are provided. These are interdigitated within the existing myelin plates of the stereotaxic atlas.

- All photographic plates now represent the complete hemisphere.

- All photographs of the cell- and fiber-stained sections have been transformed to fit the MNI-space.

- Major fiber tracts are identified in the fiber-stained sections.

- In the Nissl plates, cortical delineations (Brodmann's areas) are provided for the first time.

- The number of diagrams increased to 99, generated from the 3D reconstruction of the hemisphere registered to the MNI stereotaxic space, enabling immediate comparison between the atlas and experimental or clinical imaging results.

- Parts of cortical areas are displayed at high magnification on the facing page of full-page Nissl sections, highlighting areas corresponding with those published by von Economo and Koskinas (1925).

- A novel depiction of cortical areal patterns is used: the cortical cytoarchitectonic ribbon is unfolded and presented linearly, facilitating comparison of different interpretations and mapping activation sites.

- Low magnification diagrams in the horizontal (axial) and sagittal planes are included, calculated from the 3D model of the atlas brain.