windows to the brain: axial atlas 1

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Windows to the Brain: Axial Atlas 1 Lobes Major Regions Arterial Territories Major Tracts

Katherine Taber, PhD, FANPA MIRECC Assistant Director - Education

Research Health Scientist W.G. “Bill” Hefner VAMC, Salisbury NC

Research Professor, Div Biomedical Sci Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine

Robin Hurley, MD, FANPAMIRECC Associate Director - Education

ACOS/Research and Education Service Line W.G. “Bill” Hefner VAMC, Salisbury NC

Professor, Psychiatry and Radiology Wake Forest University School of Medicine

revised July 2011

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Right side of each section: Arterial territories are color-coded to match thefigures below.*

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posterior inferiorcerebellar

vertebral

superior cerebellar

basilar

posterior cerebral

anterior cerebral

anterior cerebral

posterior cerebral

middle cerebral

anterior inferiorcerebellar

superior cerebellar

posterior inferiorcerebellarbasilar

*Hurley RA, Fisher R, Taber KH. Clinical and functional imaging in neuropsychiatry. In: Yudofsky SC,Hales RE (eds). The American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Neuropsychiatry 5th Edition. AmericanPsychiatric Press 2007: 245-300.

Arterial Territories

Left side of each section: Cerebral lobes, major regions, and major subcorticalstructures are labeled and color-coded to match the figures below.

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Cerebra l Lobes & Major Regions

frontal lobe

parietal lobe

occipital lobe

limbic lobe

temporal lobe

frontal lobeparietal lobe

occipital lobe

cerebellum

medulla

midbrain

cerebellumpons

medulla

pons

Major Subcortical StructuresThis cartoon of a lateral view of the brain and skull shows the approximate positions andconfigurations of the major subcortical structures. The colors assigned in this figure are usedin the sectional atlas to facilitate structure identification.*

Putamen

ThalamusCaudate

FornixGlobus pallidus

Hippocampus

Mammillary body

Hypothalamus

Amygdala

Pons

Substantia nigra

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*Naumescu I, Hurley RA, Hayman LA, Taber KH. Int J Neuroradiol 1999; 5(1): 51-59.

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Cerebral Lobes & MajorRegions

Arterial Territories &Major Tracts

posterior inferior cerebellar

vertebral

superior cerebellar

posterior cerebral

anterior cerebral

middle cerebral

anterior inferior cerebellarbasilar

cerebellummidbrainmedulla

pons

temporal lobe

frontal lobe parietal lobe

occipital lobe

limbic lobe

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vertebral

superior cerebellar

posterior cerebral

anterior cerebral

middle cerebral



ponstemporal lobe


occipital lobe

limbic lobe

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anterior cerebral

middle cerebral



pons

temporal lobe


occipital lobe

limbic lobe

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anterior cerebral

middle cerebral



pons

temporal lobe


occipital lobe

limbic lobe

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