SYNOPTIC FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY

Functional Neuroanatomy of the Retina

Prologue In the eight years since Dr. Paul Witkovsky reviewed retinal anatomy and function for this series, a sea change has occurred. We have progressively uncovered detailed molecular architectures for many structures and processes. We have concretely linked circuitry and retinal disease. There is now an overwhelming amount of literature to be screened. A PubMed search on the topic of “retina...

Functional Neuroanatomy of Deductive Inference

-40280 Inferior frontal gyrus (47)3.38-4444-6 Middle frontal gyrus (47)3.06-3424-12 Inferior frontal gyrus (47)2.78-5224-2 Inferior frontal gyrus (47)2.74-3244-6 Middle frontal gyrus (11)3.17-124036 Medial frontal gyrus (8)3.01 Concrete-101640 Cingulate gyrus (32)3.23-12 -96-2...

Functional Neuroanatomy of Mental Rotation

Brain regions involved in mental rotation were determined by assessing increases in fMRI activation associated with increases in stimulus rotation during a mirror-normal parity-judgment task with letters and digits. A letter-digit category judgment task was used as a control for orientation-dependent neural processing unrelated to mental rotation per se. Compared to the category judgments, the ...

Contributions to the Functional Neuroanatomy

The functional neuroanatomy of autism.

Autism is a neurodevelopmental syndrome characterized by impaired social and executive functions. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a non-invasive technique that allows investigation of the neural networks underlying cognitive impairments in autism. In this article, brain imaging studies investigating the functional brain anatomy of autism are reviewed. Face recognition, theory of...