List+of+Brain+Databases

At the New Studies in Neurobehavioral Evolution meeting, several neuroanatomical databases were presented, including the following:

 * 1) BrainMaps.Org by Professor Edward Jones of UC Davis**


 * 2) Human brains at the University of Geneva (Patrick Hof)**


 * 3) Cetacean brains at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine (Patrick Hof)** **and primate brains at The George Washington University (Sherwood)**


 * 4) Smithsonian Institution's collection of avian and mammalian brains at the National Museum of Natural History (Andrew Iwaniuk)**


 * 5) Australian comparative marsupial brains collected by Dr. John E. Nelson (Andrew Iwaniuk)**


 * 6) Canadian Comparative Brain Collection at the Universities of Alberta and Lethbridge (Andrew Iwaniuk)**


 * 7) Comparative collections of brains and eyes collected by Drs. Pettigrew and Collin, at University of Western Australia (Shaun Collin)**


 * 8) Zilles and Stephan brain collections in Düsseldorf, Germany (Jeroen Smaers)**


 * 9) Amsterdam Central Institute for Brain Research**


 * 10) Cajal Collection at Instituto Cajal in Madrid, Spain (Javier de Felipe)**


 * 11) Huber and Crosby comparative brain collection from University of Michigan, now at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP, Washington DC. (Archibald Fobbs)**


 * 12) Ludwig Edinger collection at the Max Planck Institut fur Hirnforschung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Wolf Singer and Gilles Laurent)**


 * 13) Yakovlev-Haleem Collection of human, primate, and cetacean and other brains; Adolf Meyer Collection of brains of many mammals from the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic of Johns Hopkins University; Welker Wisconsin collection of mammalian brains from the University of Wisconsin (including the ); Brain Biodiversity Bank collection of vertebrate brains from Michigan State University (including brain atlases at http://www.brains.rad.msu.edu); all now at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP, Washington DC. (Archibald Fobbs).**


 * 14) Kostovic collection of developing human brains, Zagreb, Croatia (Patrick Hof)**


 * 15) Leonard Radinsky's endocast collection at the Field Museum of Natural History (details of curator coming soon)**

In addition to these databases that were discussed at this meeting, there are __many__ other collections worldwide that are in various university collections or in the labs of individual scientists. Some of the scientists that we have yet to approach regarding this digitized network are:


 * 1) Leo Demski's library of reef fish**


 * 2) R. Glenn Northcutt's collection of teleost and elasmobranch brains**


 * 3) Peter Narin's collection of amphibian brains**


 * 4) David Edelman's collection of cephalopod brains**


 * 5) Nick Strausfeld's collection of insect brains**


 * 6) Ralph Holloway's great ape and hominin endocasts**


 * 7) C. U. Ariêns Kappers collection of vertebrate brains, Netherlands Institute of Brain Research, Amsterdam, currently curated by Michel Hofman**

There are also several 'missing' collections, including those of:


 * 1) Roland Platel's reptile brains**

If you know of any other collections, please contact us.
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