Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Brain Maps


Brain Maps 

This fascinating organ called the brain is now the subject of a relatively new quest - brain mapping.

After all, the brain is what controls how we walk and talk and interact and perform ... and defines the very quality of our existence. So it would make sense to map its circuitry and find if this can help us in some way ! 

The brain has indeed been mapped.

Here are two key questions

1. What do we know? 
2. Can we use this knowledge to help people? 

This is what I will be talking about in this series, tagged Brain Maps



1. BrodmannMapped it
Brodmann mapped it based on cytoarchitecture
Sulcus of rolando

SomatoSensory Cortex
Motor


2. Other maps and modern thinking