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A new article in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy examines the scientific legacy of Cécile and Oskar Vogt. Their joint work shaped modern brain research — yet despite numerous nominations, they never received the Nobel Prize.

Researchers from the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1) and the Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research have remapped the human premotor cortex, identifying seven clearly distinguishable subareas. The new histologically high-resolution maps show how the different regions are anatomically delineated. This new subdivision helps clarify the functional differences between these regions. The new maps are available in the Julich Brain Atlas, a core component of EBRAINS—the European digital research platform for neuroscience. The study has now been published in Communications Biology.

The 9th BigBrain Workshop (27-29 October 2025) in Berlin brought together leading researchers to explore the frontiers of ultra-high-resolution, multimodal brain data, modelling, and mapping, and to strengthen the links between European and Canadian neuroscience. The workshop served as the closing symposium for HIBALL.

An international team of researchers has successfully applied the recently developed imaging technique ComSLI (Computational Scattered Light Imaging) to brain sections prepared using a wide range of methods, enabling the visualization of the brain’s complex fiber network with micrometer precision. This achievement marks an important advance that opens new possibilities for neuroscience and biomedical research—such as renewed, in-depth analyses of existing tissue sections. Their findings have now been published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications.

Prof. Timo Dickscheid has accepted an appointment as Professor of "Computer Vision" at the University of Koblenz. 

The Jülich Brain Atlas is now the new standard atlas in AFNI, a widely used open-source tool for analyzing and visualizing functional MRI data. The atlas is an important resource for the neuroimaging community and provides detailed parcellations of brain regions based on microstructure.

A recent review by researchers at the Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine (INM-1) examines the development of methodology—and thus the progress—in the neurosciences using the hippocampus as an example, the brain region responsible for learning, memory, and spatial orientation. 

Researchers have conducted a detailed study and re-mapping of the so-called premotor cortex in the brain, which controls movements and cognitive processes. The new maps have enabled the precise localization of the anatomical correlates of the so-called eye fields for the first time. 

Scientists have presented a new case report on the effect of deep brain stimulation in a patient with a rare genetic motor disorder. Caused by the mutation of a gene called POLR3A, this disease often results in a pronounced so-called action tremor, which disrupts any voluntary movement of the affected person through severe tremor.