Cortical Brain Functions – The Brodmann Legacy in the 21st Century
Arq. bras. neurocir; 39 (4), 2020
Publication year: 2020
In 1909, Korbinian Brodmann described 52 functional brain areas, 43 of them found in
the human brain. More than a century later, his devoted functional map was
incremented by Glasser et al in 2016, using functional nuclear magnetic resonance
imaging techniques to propose the existence of 180 functional areas in each
hemisphere, based on their cortical thickness, degree of myelination (cortical myelin
content), neuronal interconnection, topographic organization, multitask answers, and
assessment in their resting state. This opens a huge possibility, through functional
neuroanatomy, to understand a little more about normal brain function and its
functional impairment in the presence of a disease.