Looking at the heirarchy of brain areas in the Allen Brain Atlas
We do a lot of work with data from the Allen Brain Atlas. Frequently, their data is broken down by brain area, with several hundred parts making up our brains. While a map helps a lot to find out where everything goes, I also like to know which areas are substructures of which other areas. It’s always nice to know that the trigeminal nucleus is one part of the Pons for example. So to that end, I built a hierarchy of brain areas in the form of a collapsible tree. I’m still working on preventing overlapping labels, but for the most part is legible, just about, with the right level of zoom.
Next step is to map all these to the beautiful brain atlases produced by Athanasia Mowinckel with the ggseg R package.
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@misc{eugene2022brain,
author = {Eugene, },
title = {Euge: Brain Areas},
url = {https://www.fizzics.ie/posts/2022-08-14-brain-areas/},
year = {2022}
}