NeuroNames

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NeuroNames

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NeuroNames is an integrated nomenclature for structures in the

indexing of information in digital databases. Terms in the standard vocabulary have been selected for ease of pronunciation, mnemonic value, and frequency of use in recent neuroscientific publications. Structures and their relations to each other are defined in terms of the standard vocabulary. Currently NeuroNames contains standard names, synonyms and definitions of some 2,500 neuroanatomical entities.

The nomenclature is maintained by the University of Washington and is the core component of a tool called "BrainInfo". BrainInfo helps one identify structures in the brain. One can either search by a structure name or locate the structure in a brain atlas and get information such as its location in the classical brain hierarchy, images of the structure, what cells it has, its connections and genes expressed there. Information can be accessed by any of some 16,000 synonyms in eight languages.

NeuroNames is a source vocabulary of the Metathesaurus of the

:

• D. M. Bowden & R. F. Martin (March 1995). "NeuroNames Brain Hierarchy".
  S2CID 24847350
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• D. M. Bowden & M. F. Dubach (2003). "NeuroNames 2002".
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• D. M. Bowden; E. Song; J. Kosheleva; M. F. Dubach (2011). "NeuroNames: An Ontology for the BrainInfo Portal to Neuroscience on the Web".
  PMID 21789500
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See also

• NeuroLex
• Neuroscience Information Framework
• Talairach coordinates

External links

Wikidata has the property:

• NeuroNames ID (plain mode) (P4394) (see uses)

• Overview of NeuroNames
• BrainInfo
• NeuroNames Direct Link