Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections

The Comparative Mammalian Brain Collection web site provides site visitors with images and information from several of the world's largest collections of well-preserved, sectioned and stained brains of mammals, principally those at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Michigan State University. These collections are currently being consolidated into a central repository at the National Museum of Health and Medicine at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC. The collections have been a century in the making and represent the efforts of dozens of skilled scientists. Their colocation at a single facility will represent a national and international center for comparative brain study of the actual specimens. The centralized web site offers many kinds of access to the information contained in the specimens, for use by students and researchers worldwide.

Comparative Mammalian Brain Collection 网站向访客提供来自全球最大部分保存、切片并染色哺乳动物大脑的多个收藏馆的图像和信息，其中主要来自威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校和密歇根州立大学。这些收藏馆目前正在被整合至位于华盛顿特区武装部队病理研究所国家健康与医学博物馆的中心存储库中。这一收藏馆的建立历时一个世纪，代表了数十位技艺精湛的科学家们的努力。这些收藏馆的集中存放将标志着全国乃至国际的比较脑研究实物标本中心。该集中化的网站为全球学生和研究人员提供了对标本内信息的多种访问方式。