brain.sabinasz.net is an interactive encyclopedia of the human brain that allows you to navigate through the hierarchical anatomical structure of the brain with ease. It is primarily intended for students and researchers who want to explore the brain and make sense of the large vocabulary used in brain anatomy, which includes many synonyms for the same regions, partially overlapping regions and regions nested within other regions.

In the upper left, you see a tree structure of brain regions. You can expand regions to view their subregions by clicking on the plus sign. When you select a brain region, you'll see a 3D model of that brain region superimposed on the 3D brain model on the right-hand side, which you can view at deliberate angles by clicking on it and moving your mouse. Moreover, you can zoom in by scrolling. Alternatively, you can use the navigation buttons below the 3D model. If you want to look inside the brain, you can select from various types of sections (medial, lateral, etc.) by clicking on one of the buttons. Alternatively, you can use the sliders to specify the desired MNI coordinate ranges yourself.

brain.sabinasz.net draws from data obtained from the Harvard Oxford Atlas (http://www.cma.mgh.harvard.edu), the MRI brain template by Fonov et al. (2009, 2011) and the English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org).

brain.sabinasz.net has been developed by Daniel Sabinasz (daniel@sabinasz.net, deepideas.net). If you find bugs, content-wise mistakes or have any questions, remarks or suggestions, please feel free to contact me.

References

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Fonov, V, Evans, AC, Botteron, K, Almli, CR, McKinstry, RC, Collins, DL, & Brain Development Cooperative Group. (2011). Unbiased average age-appropriate atlases for pediatric studies. Neuroimage, 54(1), 313-327.

Fonov, VS., Evans, AC, McKinstry, RC, Almli, CR, & Collins, DL (2009). Unbiased nonlinear average age-appropriate brain templates from birth to adulthood. Neuroimage, 47(1), S102.

Frazier JA, Chiu S, Breeze JL, Makris N, Lange N, Kennedy DN, Herbert MR, Bent EK, Koneru VK, Dieterich ME, Hodge SM, Rauch SL, Grant PE, Cohen BM, Seidman LJ, Caviness VS, Biederman J. Structural brain magnetic resonance imaging of limbic and thalamic volumes in pediatric bipolar disorder. Am J Psychiatry. 2005 Jul;162(7):1256-65.

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