Quiz
A structure lights up; pick its name.
Spaced repetition: items you miss come back sooner; items you get right move up a box and appear less often. Progress is saved in this browser.
About this prototype
instabrain3d is a study tool for learning brain anatomy and connectivity in 3D. Structures come from group-average adult atlases in MNI space: good for learning, but not exact for any individual brain, and children's brains differ.
Data and credits
- Brain surface: MNI ICBM152 nonlinear 2009 template. Copyright (C) 1993–2004 Louis Collins, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University.
- Cortical and subcortical regions: Harvard-Oxford cortical and subcortical structural atlases (Desikan et al., 2006; Frazier et al., 2005; Makris et al., 2006; Goldstein et al., 2007), distributed with FSL, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Cerebellar lobules: Probabilistic MR atlas of the human cerebellum (Diedrichsen et al., 2009), distributed with FSL, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- White matter tracts: HCP1065 population-averaged tract atlas: Yeh, F.-C. (2022). Population-based tract-to-region connectome of the human brain and its hierarchical topology. Nature Communications, 13, 4933. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Data were provided [in part] by the Human Connectome Project, WU-Minn Consortium (Principal Investigators: David Van Essen and Kamil Ugurbil; 1U54MH091657) funded by the 16 NIH Institutes and Centers that support the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research; and by the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience at Washington University.
- The 3D meshes and tract lines in this app are adapted from the data above and are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Rendering: three.js (MIT License).
Not medical advice
For education only. Region notes are brief textbook summaries, not complete descriptions of function.
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