Abstract Despite its critical role in neurodevelopment and brain function, vitamin-D (vit-D) homeostasis, metabolism and kinetics within the central nervous system remain largely undetermined. Thus, it is of critical importance to establish an accurate, highly sensitive and reproducible method to quantitate vit-D in brain tissue. Here, we present a novel liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method and for the first time, demonstrate detection of seven major vit-D metabolites in brain tissues of C57BL/6J wild-type mice, namely: 1,25(OH) 2 D 3 , 3-epi-1,25(OH) 2 D 3, 1,25(OH) 2 D 2 , 25(OH)D 3 , 25(OH)D 2 , 24,25(OH) 2 D 3 , and 24,25(OH) 2 D 2 . Chromatographic separation was achieved on a pentaflurophenyol column 3 mM ammonium formate with water/methanol [A] and methanol/isopropanol [B] phases. Detection was by positive-ion electrospray tandem mass spectrometry. We used calibration standards of each metabolite prepared in brain matrices to validate the detection range, precision, accuracy and recovery. Isotopically labelled analogues, 1,25(OH) 2 D 3 -d 3 , 25(OH)D 3 -C 5 and 24,25(OH) 2 D 3 -d 6 , served as the internal standards for the closest molecular related metabolite in all measurements. The calibration range was between 1 fg/mL to 10 ng/mL with an LLOD and LLOQ of 10 fg/mL and 3 fg/mL, respectively. The intra-/inter-day precision and accuracy for measuring brain vit-D metabolites ranged between 0.12-11.53% and 0.28-9.11%, respectively. Recovery ranged between 99.06% and 106.9% for all metabolites. Collectively, the sensitivity and efficiency of our method supersedes previously reported protocols used to measure vit-D and to our knowledge, the first protocol to reveal the abundance of 25(OH)D 2 , 1,25(OH)D 2 and 24,25(OH) 2 D 2 , in brain tissue of any species. This technique may be important in supporting the future advancement of pre-clinical research into the function of vit-D in neurophysiological, neuropsychiatric, and neurodegeneration.