David C Van Essen

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Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Surface-based and probabilistic atlases of primate cerebral cortex
    David C Van Essen
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Neuron 56:209-25. 2007
  2. ncbi A Population-Average, Landmark- and Surface-based (PALS) atlas of human cerebral cortex
    David C Van Essen
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S Euclid Ave, Box 8108, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Neuroimage 28:635-62. 2005
  3. ncbi Symmetry of cortical folding abnormalities in Williams syndrome revealed by surface-based analyses
    David C Van Essen
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    J Neurosci 26:5470-83. 2006
  4. ncbi Corticocortical and thalamocortical information flow in the primate visual system
    David C Van Essen
    Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Prog Brain Res 149:173-85. 2005
  5. ncbi On navigating the human cerebral cortex: response to 'in praise of tedious anatomy'
    David C Van Essen
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    Neuroimage 37:1050-4; discussion 1066-8. 2007
  6. ncbi Lost in localization--but found with foci?!
    David C Van Essen
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University in St Louis, 660 S Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Neuroimage 48:14-7. 2009
  7. ncbi Surface-based approaches to spatial localization and registration in primate cerebral cortex
    David C Van Essen
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Neuroimage 23:S97-107. 2004
  8. ncbi Defining functional areas in individual human brains using resting functional connectivity MRI
    Alexander L Cohen
    Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Neuroimage 41:45-57. 2008
  9. ncbi Peaked encoding of relative luminance in macaque areas V1 and V2
    Xinmiao Peng
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
    J Neurophysiol 93:1620-32. 2005
  10. ncbi Neurons in monkey visual area V2 encode combinations of orientations
    Akiyuki Anzai
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    Nat Neurosci 10:1313-21. 2007

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Publications29

  1. ncbi Surface-based and probabilistic atlases of primate cerebral cortex
    David C Van Essen
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Neuron 56:209-25. 2007
    ..Linking different brain atlases to one another and to online databases containing a growing body of neuroimaging data will enable powerful forms of data mining that accelerate discovery and improve research efficiency...
  2. ncbi A Population-Average, Landmark- and Surface-based (PALS) atlas of human cerebral cortex
    David C Van Essen
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S Euclid Ave, Box 8108, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Neuroimage 28:635-62. 2005
    ..All data sets in the PALS-B12 atlas are accessible via the SumsDB database for online and offline visualization and analysis...
  3. ncbi Symmetry of cortical folding abnormalities in Williams syndrome revealed by surface-based analyses
    David C Van Essen
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    J Neurosci 26:5470-83. 2006
    ..These findings provide insights regarding possible developmental mechanisms that give rise to folding abnormalities and to the spectrum of behavioral characteristics associated with WS...
  4. ncbi Corticocortical and thalamocortical information flow in the primate visual system
    David C Van Essen
    Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Prog Brain Res 149:173-85. 2005
    ..This chapter evaluates current hypotheses and evidence relating to the interaction between thalamocortical and corticocortical circuitry in the dynamic regulation of information flow...
  5. ncbi On navigating the human cerebral cortex: response to 'in praise of tedious anatomy'
    David C Van Essen
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    Neuroimage 37:1050-4; discussion 1066-8. 2007
    ..It also includes information about the actual differences between various registration strategies and introduces a new strategy for converting neuroimaging data to a standard stereotaxic space...
  6. ncbi Lost in localization--but found with foci?!
    David C Van Essen
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University in St Louis, 660 S Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Neuroimage 48:14-7. 2009
    ....
  7. ncbi Surface-based approaches to spatial localization and registration in primate cerebral cortex
    David C Van Essen
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Neuroimage 23:S97-107. 2004
    ....
  8. ncbi Defining functional areas in individual human brains using resting functional connectivity MRI
    Alexander L Cohen
    Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Neuroimage 41:45-57. 2008
    ..Our approach reliably produces maps of bounded regions appropriate in size and number for putative functional areas. These findings will hopefully stimulate further methodological refinements and validations...
  9. ncbi Peaked encoding of relative luminance in macaque areas V1 and V2
    Xinmiao Peng
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
    J Neurophysiol 93:1620-32. 2005
    ..Many cells, including the gray-preferring neurons, exhibited strong color preferences, suggesting a role of luminance-sensitive cells in encoding information in three-dimensional color space...
  10. ncbi Neurons in monkey visual area V2 encode combinations of orientations
    Akiyuki Anzai
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    Nat Neurosci 10:1313-21. 2007
    ..These results indicate that V2 neurons could play an important role in analyzing contours and textures and could provide useful cues for surface segmentation...
  11. ncbi A comparative study of shape representation in macaque visual areas v2 and v4
    Jay Hegdé
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Cereb Cortex 17:1100-16. 2007
    ..Commonalities of visual shape representation across hierarchical levels may reflect the replication of neural circuits used in generating complex shape representations at multiple spatial scales...
  12. ncbi Automated landmark identification for human cortical surface-based registration
    Alan Anticevic
    Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, USA
    Neuroimage 59:2539-47. 2012
    ..ALI largely circumvents human error and bias and enables high throughput analysis of large neuroimaging datasets for inter-subject registration to an atlas...
  13. ncbi The human brain is intrinsically organized into dynamic, anticorrelated functional networks
    Michael D Fox
    Department of Radiology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:9673-8. 2005
    ..We suggest that both task-driven neuronal responses and behavior are reflections of this dynamic, ongoing, functional organization of the brain...
  14. ncbi Comparing surface-based and volume-based analyses of functional neuroimaging data in patients with schizophrenia
    Alan Anticevic
    Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, MO 63130, USA
    Neuroimage 41:835-48. 2008
    ..These results indicate that SBR provides significant advantages over affine VBR when analyzing cortical fMRI activations. Furthermore, these improvements can be even greater in disorders that have associated structural abnormalities...
  15. ncbi Persistence and brain circuitry
    Debra A Gusnard
    Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:3479-84. 2003
    ..These findings represent a fresh approach to linking normal individual differences in personality and behavior to specific neuronal structures and subsystems...
  16. ncbi Towards a quantitative, probabilistic neuroanatomy of cerebral cortex
    David C Van Essen
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University, School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Cortex 40:211-2. 2004
  17. ncbi Mapping human cortical areas in vivo based on myelin content as revealed by T1- and T2-weighted MRI
    Matthew F Glasser
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    J Neurosci 31:11597-616. 2011
    ....
  18. ncbi Surface-based atlases of cerebellar cortex in the human, macaque, and mouse
    David C Van Essen
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 978:468-79. 2002
    ..These cerebellar atlases, along with associated software for visualization and for mapping experimental data onto the atlas, are freely available to the neuroscience community (see http:/brainmap.wustl.edu)...
  19. ncbi Scene segmentation and attention in primate cortical areas V1 and V2
    Daniel S Marcus
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    J Neurophysiol 88:2648-58. 2002
    ..This process occurs independent of directed visual attention...
  20. ncbi Functional organization of human intraparietal and frontal cortex for attending, looking, and pointing
    Serguei V Astafiev
    Washington U, St Louis, MO
    J Neurosci 23:4689-99. 2003
    ..In contrast, large interspecies differences were noted in the topography of frontal areas...
  21. ncbi Microstructural changes of the baboon cerebral cortex during gestational development reflected in magnetic resonance imaging diffusion anisotropy
    Christopher D Kroenke
    Oregon National Primate Research Center, and Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA
    J Neurosci 27:12506-15. 2007
    ..The approach presented here can be applied in vivo to the study of normal brain development and its disruption in human infants and experimental animal models...
  22. ncbi Windows on the brain: the emerging role of atlases and databases in neuroscience
    David C Van Essen
    Washington U, St Louis, MO
    Curr Opin Neurobiol 12:574-9. 2002
    ..Recent progress towards realizing this potential includes the establishment of probabilistic atlases, surface-based atlases and associated databases, combined with improvements in visualization capabilities and internet access...
  23. ncbi Cortical folding abnormalities in autism revealed by surface-based morphometry
    Christine Wu Nordahl
    The Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
    J Neurosci 27:11725-35. 2007
    ..These findings are consistent with evidence of an altered trajectory of early brain development in autism, and they identify several regions that may have abnormal patterns of connectivity in individuals with autism...
  24. ncbi Stereopsis activates V3A and caudal intraparietal areas in macaques and humans
    Doris Y Tsao
    Massachusetts General Hospital, NMR Center, Athinoula A Martinos Center, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA
    Neuron 39:555-68. 2003
    ..Thus, in both primate species a small cluster of areas at the parieto-occipital junction appears to be specialized for stereopsis...