Hi everyone,

I'm currently using the Allan Brain Atlas's Mouse Brain Connectivity tool (http://connectivity.brain-map.org/) to look at the connectivity between certain sensory and association brain regions. However, most of the literature on neural tracer studies uses different nomenclature for brain regions, and more specifically almost the entire literature uses different nomenclature than the Allan Brain's Mouse Brain Reference Atlas. 

For example in the literature, the primary auditory cortex is often referred to as A1, the Auditory Core areas (A1 + AAF), Brodmann area 41, or Te1. Yet, the Mouse Brain Reference Atlas uses the name 'Auditory Areas', which they subdivide in the 'Dorsal auditory area', 'Primary auditory area', 'Posterior auditory area', 'Ventral auditory area'. In this case, I figure, 'Primary auditory area' is the region that I'm looking for, as it probably corresponds to A1 (and maybe AAF too?).

If this is the case then I can of course estimate for each brain region described in the literature its relative position to the primary sensory areas and then sort of guess in what Reference Atlas region it most likely is.. However, this seems rather imprecise, and also it will take a very long time.

So my question here is:

1) How can I find out what the regions of the Mouse Reference Atlas comprise of?

2) Is there potentially a mouse brain anatomy database, which allows you to quickly look up all/most of the different names used for certain brain regions?

3) Is there a database to identify homologues for brain regions across species?

Also, other tips to tackle this problem would be most welcome. 

Best wishes and many thanks!

Jesse

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