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Parent topics
- Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. [e]
- Anatomy [r]: The branch of morphology given to the study of the structure of members of the biological kingdom Animalia (animals). [e]
Subtopics
- Grey matter [r]: A subset of brain tissue that contains few myelinated axons but the somas of nerve cells, as well as glia and endothelial structures. [e]
- White matter [r]: A subset of brain tissue whose volume is dominated by myelinated axons of nerve cells. [e]
- Cerebral cortex [r]: External tissue layer within the vertebrate central nervous system; home to the nerve cell bodies; important in learning and dementia. [e]
- Cortical thickness [r]: The combined thickness of the cerebral cortex layers. [e]
- Cortical connectivity [r]: The degree to which different subunits of the cerebral cortex are linked to each other via nerve fibres. [e]
- Basal ganglia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Brain stem [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pons [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Red nucleus [r]: Structure in the rostral midbrain involved in motor coordination, which comprises a caudal magnocellular and a rostral parvocellular part. [e]
Other related topics
- Brain development [r]: The build-up of the brain from ectodermal cells to a complex structure of neurons and glia. [e]
- Brain evolution [r]: The process by which the central nervous system changed over many generations. [e]
- Brain morphometry [r]: The quantification of correlations between structures and functions in the brain. [e]
- Brain size [r]: Umbrella term for various measures of how big a brain is. [e]
- Gyrification [r]: The folding process during brain development, or the extent of folding. [e]
