The electronic collection of vertebrate brains of the National Natural History Museum of Paris.

An A0 poster which describes our project on the The electronic collection of vertebrate brains of the National Natural History Museum of Paris.

The poster was presented at the appning2018: Workshop on Animal PoPulatioN ImagiNG (https://appning2018.sciencesconf.org/) in Paris, 22 June.

Project:

Understanding the evolution of the brain across species should allow us to better understand the sources of the normal and pathological variability in the human brain – a major challenge for neurosciences today. An analysis of neuroanatomical evolution and conservation should not only allow us to detect the traces of evolution in different brain systems and regions, it should also allow us to evaluate the degree of phenotypic conservation across species, providing a framework to better understand natural variability, and to distinguish it from pathological variability.

We have begun to constitute an open-access collection of high quality vertebrate brain MRI. We are currently scanning and processing the Vertebrate Brain Collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France. To date, more than 200 brains from different species have been scanned and will soon be made publicly available. Over the next five years, this digital collection should grow to > 1900 different specimen.