title: Towards multimodal atlases of the human brain.
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.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA. toga@loni.ucla.edu
authors.forename: Arthur W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Toga
authors.forename: Paul M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: Susumu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: Katrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Amunts
authors.forename: Karl
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zilles
mesh_terms: D000716:Anatomy, Artistic / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D008488:Medical Illustration; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009413:Nerve Fibers, Myelinated / Q000502:physiology; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology; D012016:Reference Values