07/11/2025
🧠 Mapping Brain Connectivity: Two Major Advances from a Franco-Italian Collaboration to understand the structure and organization of the human brain’s white matter.
Together, these findings lay the anatomical foundation for future connectivity atlases, built on a systemic and integrative approach that goes beyond classical bundle definitions to embrace the true complexity of human brain networks.
✏️ These studies result from a close collaboration between Laurent Petit (GIN-IMN team), Silvio Sarubbo (University of Trento), and Paolo Avesani (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento), carried out as part of Laura Vavassori’s doctoral research.
👉 "Brain dissection photogrammetry: a tool for studying human white matter connections integrating ex vivo and in vivo multimodal datasets" | Nature Communications : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64788-y
👉"Anatomical insights into the superior longitudinal system from integrative in-viva and ex-viva maping" | Communications Biology : https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08774-6
This work introduces BraDiPho, an open-access resource of interactive 3D human brain models, integrating layer-by-layer dissections with tractography, cortical parcellations, and tools for multimodal white matter anatomical studies.
