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Slicing the Embryonic Chicken Auditory Brainstem to Evaluate Tonotopic Gradients and Microcircuits
Published on: July 12, 2022
Functional anatomy of subcortical circuits issuing from or integrating at the human brainstem
Alberto Prats-Galino1, Guadalupe Soria, Matteo de Notaris
1Laboratory of Surgical NeuroAnatomy (LSNA), Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. aprats@ub.edu
Abstract:
The functional organization of the main human brainstem centers and circuits are described as revealed in post-mortem material with high-resolution structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and diffusion tensor tractography (DTT) acquired at ultra-high magnetic field 7 T. The description is complemented with a conventional in vivo fiber tracking study of the descending motor pathways. This type of neuroanatomic depiction of nuclei and nerve tracts at very high spatial resolution opens new possibilities to analyze the fine structure and circuits of the human brainstem, at least in post-mortem material.
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