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20: 170:") leave brain tissue appearing largely homogeneous and do not reveal the level of organization apparent in a Nissl stain. Nissl staining reveals details ranging from the macroscopic, such as the laminar pattern of the cerebral cortex or the interlocking nuclear patterns of the diencephalon and brainstem, to the microscopic, such as the distinctions between individual neurons and 115:
worked on the brains of diverse mammalian species and developed a division of the cerebral cortex into 52 discrete areas (of which 44 in the human, and the remaining 8 in the non-human primate brain). Brodmann used numbers to categorize the different architectural areas, now referred to as a
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expressed in any group of cells in the brain. However, Nissl cytoarchitecture remains a reliable, inexpensive, and familiar starting or reference point for neuroscientists wishing to examine or communicate their findings in a widely recognized anatomical framework and/or in reference to
130:, two neurologists in Vienna, produced a landmark work in brain research by defining 107 cortical areas on the basis of cytoarchitectonic criteria. They used letters to categorize the architecture, e.g., "F" for areas of the 320:
Elliot Smith, G. (1907) A new topographical survey of the human cerebral cortex, being an account of the distribution of the anatomically distinct cortical areas and their relationship to the cerebral sulci.
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Yosef Grodzinsky Professor and Canadian Research Chair in Neurolinguistics McGill University; Katrin Amunts Professor of Structural-Functional Brain Mapping Aachen University (24 March 2006).
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the neuroscientist and histologist who originated the technique) is commonly used for determining the cytoarchitectonics of neuroanatomical structures, using common agents such as
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composition of the central nervous system's tissues under the microscope. Cytoarchitectonics is one of the ways to parse the brain, by obtaining sections of the brain using a
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in any subregion of the central nervous system. Many other neuroanatomic and cytoarchitectonic techniques are available to supplement Nissl cytoarchitectonics, including
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Der Bau der Gross-Hirnrinde und seine örtlichen Verschiedenheiten, nebst einem pathologisch–anatomischen Corollarium
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Vergleichende Lokalisationslehre der Grosshirnrinde in ihren Prinzipien dargestellt auf Grund des Zellenbaues
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was the first to present the cytoarchitecture of the human brain into 40 areas.
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Campbell, A.W. (1903). "Histological studies on cerebral localisation".
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and staining them with chemical agents which reveal where different
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Atlas of Cytoarchitectonics of the Adult Human Cerebral Cortex
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Language and Literacy Development: What Educators Need to Know
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Die Cytoarchitektonik der Hirnrinde des erwachsenen Menschen
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Defining cerebral cytoarchitecture began with the advent of
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Microscopic study of the anatomy of human nervous tissue
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neuroanatomical atlases which use the same technique.
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Neuroanatomy of Language Regions of the Human Brain
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Brodmann areas
Greek
κύτος
ἀρχιτεκτονική
cellular
microtome
neurons
axons
myeloarchitectonics
histology
Theodor Meynert
Paul Flechsig
Alfred Walter Campbell
Grafton Elliot Smith
Korbinian Brodmann
Brodmann Area
Constantin von Economo
Georg N. Koskinas
frontal lobe
Franz Nissl
thionine
cresyl violet
neutral red
Nissl bodies
rough endoplasmic reticulum
H&E stain
glia
immunohistochemistry
in situ hybridization

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