White matter scaffold offers new view of the brain

Neural map may explain why some injuries are worse than others

BRAIN TRUST  These white matter tracts (indicated by red, blue and green lines) in the brain are particularly vulnerable to injury, a new study suggests.

A. Irimia and J. Van Horn/Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2014

Buried amid the complexity of the human brain, a newly described scaffold carries important messages from one place to another.