大鼠脑定位图谱（英文第三版）
PREFACE: THIRD EDITION
We are brain cartographers, and, like our geographer colleagues, our central aim is to
provide precise coordinates and accurate identification of features of interest. In this
compact third edition of our atlas, we have used the proven stereotaxic reference system
that we constructed for the first edition (Paxinos and Watson, 1982). This reference
system is now universally recognized as the optimum grid for stereotaxic work in the
rat brain. We have completely revised the identification of brain structures in order to
produce an atlas that will be useful beyond the end of this century. We have also taken
this opportunity to release the atlas in a compact form and to follow this with a comprehensive
fourth edition (planned for 1997).
Features of the Compact Third Edition
• The most accurate stereotaxic reference system available
• Completely revised coronal drawings based on the photographs of the 76 coronal sections
in the second edition of our atlas (Paxinos and Watson, 1986)
• Delineations assisted by consideration of separate sets of brain sections stained for
parvalbumin, calbindin, calretinin, SMI-32, tyrosine hydroxylase, and NADPH
diaphorase (Paxinos et al., in press [a,b]), the rat nervous system textbook (Paxinos,
1995), the atlas of Swanson (1992), and other recent neuoranatomical literature
• Spinal cord drawings from the atlas of Molander and Grant (1995)
• Diagrams available on CD-Rom for printing at different magnifications