BrainInfo consists of three basic components: NeuroNames, a developing database of definitions of neuroanatomic structures in four species, their most common acronyms and their names in eight languages; NeuroMaps, a digital atlas system based on 3-D canonical stereotaxic atlases of rhesus macaque and mouse brains and programs that enable one to map data to standard surface and cross-sectional views of the brains for presentation and publication; and the NeuroMaps precursor: Template Atlas of the Primate Brain, a 2-D stereotaxic atlas of the longtailed (fascicularis) macaque brain that shows the locations of some 250 architectonic areas of macaque cortex. The NeuroMaps atlases will soon include a number of overlays showing the locations of cortical areas and other neuroscientific data in the standard frameworks of the macaque and mouse atlases.

Viewers are encouraged to use NeuroNames as a stable source of unique standard terms and acronyms for brain structures in publications, illustrations and indexing systems; to use templates extracted from the NeuroMaps macaque and mouse brain atlases for presenting neuroscientific information in image format; and to use the Template Atlas for warping to MRIs or PET scans of the macaque brain to estimate the stereotaxic locations of structures.

Contents of this work may be downloaded, copied, cited and disseminated provided that proper attribution is given:
BrainInfo (1991-present), National Primate Research Center, University of Washington, http://www.braininfo.org.

This work has been supported by grants LM/OD-06243, from the National Library of Medicine and the Office of the Director, NIH; MHO69259 from the Human Brain Project; and RR-00166, from the National Center for Research Resources, to the University of Washington.

Contact:
Douglas M. Bowden, MD
dmbowden@u.washington.edu