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- Cerebral cortex [r]: External tissue layer within the vertebrate brain, ensheathed by the pia mater; home to the nerve cell bodies; important in learning and dementia. [e]
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- Cerebral cortex [r]: External tissue layer within the vertebrate brain, ensheathed by the pia mater; home to the nerve cell bodies; important in learning and dementia. [e]
- Neocortex [r]: The six-layered outer layer of the mammalian brain. [e]
- Gyrification [r]: The folding process during brain development, or the extent of folding. [e]
- Cortical connectivity [r]: The degree to which different subunits of the cerebral cortex are linked to each other via nerve fibres. [e]
- 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]
- Myelination [r]: The process by which specialized glial cells ensheath the axons of nerve cells with myelin. [e]
- Developmental biomechanics [r]: The study of the physical forces and energies involved in the patterning of a developing organism. [e]
- Neuronal migration [r]: The process by which nerve cells travel from the place of their last cell division to their final position in the brain. [e]
- Schizophrenia [r]: A mental disorder characterized by impaired perception of the individual's environment. [e]
- Autism [r]: Developmental disability that results from a disorder of the human central nervous system. [e]
- Child development [r]: The ensemble of processes that transform an infant into an adolescent. [e]
- Neoteny [r]: The retardation of some aspects of the development of an organism relative to sexual maturation. [e]
- Tensegrity [r]: The structural integrity achieved by balanced pulling and pushing forces in biological structures or architecture; the word is a linguistic blend of tension and integrity. [e]
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- Topology correction [r]: A set of procedures in computer graphics that correct inconsistencies in the topology of a surface mesh that has been obtained from noisy imaging data. [e]
