Penfield AtlasThe living map of the human brain.
Penfield Atlas is a living computational atlas of the human brain. Its purpose is to unify neuroscience knowledge (anatomy, connectivity, cell types, receptors, activity) into one explorable spatial system.
Atlas is being built, not finished. Every object it integrates carries provenance and an honest evidence state: measured, derived, inferred, simulated or still unknown.
Discuss the atlasHow Penfield Atlas works
- 01Anatomy
- 02Brain regions
- 03Cortical layers
- 04Cell types
- 05Neurons
- 06Connectivity
- 07White-matter pathways
- 08Receptor distributions
- 09Gene expression
- 10Electrophysiology
- 11Metabolism
- 12Development
- 13Ageing
- 14Pathology
A map that admits
what it doesn’t know.
Layers of knowledge sit in the same space. Each object shows how it was established, and where the atlas is still uncertain, it says so.
MEASURED→DERIVED→INFERRED→SIMULATED→UNKNOWN
Cortical parcellation estimated from structural MRI.
- SOURCE
- ATLAS BUILD 0.3
- DATASET
- EX–PARCEL–04
- SPECIES
- Human
- MODALITY
- 7T T1w MRI
- CONFIDENCE
- 91%
- VERSION
- parcel 2.1
Every object carries provenance: source, dataset, species, modality, confidence and version. Nothing enters the atlas without it.
Illustrative objects and provenance. The atlas is being mapped, not complete.
- MEASURED
- DERIVED
- INFERRED
- SIMULATED
- UNKNOWN
Everything knows
where it came from.
An atlas entry is not a fact; it is a claim with a history. Every scientific object links back to the evidence that produced it, so the map can be audited, challenged and improved.
- 01Source
- 02Dataset
- 03Paper
- 04Species
- 05Modality
- 06Confidence
- 07Processing and version
Planned capabilities
- 01Multi-scale anatomy, from regions toward cells
- 02Connectivity and pathway knowledge
- 03Receptor and gene-expression fields
- 04Developmental and ageing trajectories
- 05Pathology and variation mapping
- 06Evidence states on every object
- 07Priors for Penfield Model and Reference
Atlas is shared knowledge. Penfield Model applies it to one specific brain. Build a Model Compare with Reference
One system
Every Penfield product sits on the same path: measurement in, intervention out. Penfield Atlas is one part of it.
Observe & Understand
Understand
Simulate