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We have already pointed out that the orthogonal or Cartesian coordinate system (Plate 64, Fig. A) used in descriptive anatomy and adult brain stereotaxis, is fully inadequate to characterize the true morphological directional and positional relations within developing and adult brains, due to various accumulated morphogenetic deformations which start with the closure of the neural tube itself (Sect. 1.5; Plate 13).
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Nieuwenhuys, R., Puelles, L. (2016). The Natural Coordinate System of the CNS. In: Towards a New Neuromorphology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25693-1_7
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