Abstract
White matter dissection (WMD) is a gross anatomical technique that had been used as the only technique for the study of the human brain about 350 years ago. At the beginning of the 20th century, WMD was overwhelmed by the microtome section technique and it declined rapidly. Recently, however, WMD resumed its position as a very effective practice to understand the three-dimensional structure of the human brain. This re-evaluation of WMD occurred in accord with advances of the medical electro-technology to visualize the human brain in both its structures and functions. Today, the speaker will present at first the materials, methods and techniques of WMD, then show some representative nerve fasciculi and subcortical landscapes explored by WMD.
