The Brain Architecture Center at USC

Vision statement:

The goal of the Center is to clarify the basic structural plan of the vertebrate nervous system, with a special emphasis on rodent and primate (including human) brains. This will be implemented as a workbench and set of links on the web.

Links:

• NeuroScholar
• The Brain Architecture Management System
• Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, UCLA

Contacts:

• Larry W. Swanson, lswanson@usc.edu

Organization:

• Director:
• Larry W. Swanson
• Scientific Advisory Board:
• David Anderson, Division of Biology, Caltech
• Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Computer Science Department, USC
• Ulrich Neumann, Director, Integrated Media Systems Center; Computer Science Department, USC
• Paul Rosenbloom, Associate Director, Information Sciences Institute, USC
• Clifford B. Saper, Chairman, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard
• Arthur Toga, Director, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA

Staff:

• Larry W. Swanson, Ph.D. lswanson@usc.edu
• Hong-Wei Dong, M.D., Ph.D. hdong@usc.edu
• Gully Burns, D.Phil. gully@usc.edu
• Mihail Bota, Ph.D. mbota@usc.edu
• Donna Simmons, Laboratory Manager dsimmons@usc.edu
• Cathleen Crayton, Administrative Coordinator crayton@usc.edu

References:

• Swanson, L.W. (1995) Mapping the human brain: past, present, and future. Trends in Neurosci. 18:471-474.
• Swanson, L.W. (1996) Histochemical contributions to the understanding of neuronal phenotypes and information flow through neural circuits: the polytransmitter hypothesis. In: Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Communication, K. Fuxe, T. Hökfelt, L. Olson, D. Ottoson, A. Dahlström & A. Björklund (eds.), Pergamon Press, New York, pp. 15-27.
• Alvarez-Bolado, G. & L.W. Swanson (1996) Developmental Brain Maps: Structure of the Embryonic Rat Brain, 154 pp., Elsevier, Amsterdam.
• Dashti, A.E., S. Ghandeharizadeh, J. Stone, L.W. Swanson & R.H. Thompson (1997) Database challenges and solutions in neuroscientific applications. Neuroimage 5:97-115.
• Shahabi, C., A.E. Dashti, G. Burns, S. Ghandeharizadeh, N. Jiang & L.W. Swanson (1999) Visualization of spatial neuroanatomical data. In: Visual Information and Information Systems, D.P. Huijsmans & A.W.M. Smeulders (eds.), Springer, Berlin, pp. 801-808.
• Swanson, L.W. (1998-1999) Brain Maps: Structure of the Rat Brain. A Laboratory Guide with Printed and Electronic Templates for Data, Models and Schematics. Second revised edition (includes double CD-ROM). 268 pp., Elsevier, Amsterdam.
• Swanson, L.W. (2000) A history of neuroanatomical mapping. In: Brain Mapping: The Applications, A.W. Toga & J.C. Mazziotta (eds.), Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 77-109.
• Swanson, L.W. (2000) What is the brain? Trends in Neurosci. 23:519-527.
• Swanson, L.W. (2000) Cerebral hemisphere regulation of motivated behavior. Brain Res. 886:113-164.
• Swanson, L.W. (2001) Interactive brain maps and atlases. In: Computing the Brain: A Guide to Neuroinformatics, M.A. Arbib & J.G. Grethe (eds.), Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 167-177.
• Dashti, A., G.A.P.C. Burns, S. Ghandeharizadeh, S. Jia, C. Shahabi, D.M. Simmons, J. Stone & L.W. Swanson (2001) The 'neuroanatomical rat brain viewer' ('NeuARt'): a system for registering data against brain atlases. In: Computing the Brain: A Guide to Neuroinformatics, M.A. Arbib & J.G. Grethe (eds.), Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 189-202.
• Watts, A.G. & L.W. Swanson (2002) Anatomy of motivational systems. In: “Stevens” Handbook of Experimental Psychology, Third Edition, R. Gallistel (ed.), John Wiley & Sons, New York, pp. 563-631.
• Swanson, L.W. (2002) Organization of nervous systems. Ch. 2 in: Functional Neuroscience, Second Edition, L.R. Squire et. al. (eds.), Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 15-45.
• Swanson, L.W. (2003) Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan, 263 pp., Oxford University Press, New York.