Available Now in 3-D: An Ultra-High Resolution Brain (5 of 5) (VIDEO)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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This video zooms in on layers of the Big Brain reference map to reveal detail in different brain components and regions including the corpus callosum, the basal ganglia, the insular cortex, the brainstem and the cerebellum. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the June 21, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Katrin Amunts at Research Centre Jülich in Jülich, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "BigBrain: An Ultrahigh-Resolution 3D Human Brain Model."

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[Video courtesy of Montreal Neurological Institute/McGill University, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine/Research Centre Juelich, and National Research Council of Canada]

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