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Parent topics

• Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e]
  • Developmental biology [r]: The study of how cells grow and interact to form an organism. ^[e]
  • Morphology (biology) [r]: The study of biological structure. ^[e]
    • Gyrification [r]: The folding process during brain development, or the extent of folding. ^[e]
• Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. ^[e]
  • Neonatology [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with infants. ^[e]
  • Pediatrics [r]: Branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and the treatment of their diseases. ^[e]
  • Psychiatry [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with mental disorders. ^[e]
  • Neurology [r]: The medical specialty concerned with evaluating the nervous system and the other system that it affects, and the treatment of nervous system disorders. ^[e]
• Nervous system [r]: The control unit of bodily functions in animals. ^[e]
  • Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. ^[e]
    • Neuroanatomy [r]: The branch of anatomy that studies the anatomical organization of the nervous system. ^[e]
    • Brain development [r]: The build-up of the brain from ectodermal cells to a complex structure of neurons, glia and blood vessels. ^[e]
    • 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]
• Neuroimaging [r]: A group of techniques used to visualize structure and function of nervous systems, especially the vertebrate brain. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Gyrus [r]: A convex fold on the surface of the cerebral cortex in mammals. ^[e]
• Sulcus [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Sulcus (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• Sulcal root [r]: Generic name for a set of locations on an embryo's cortical surface that organize the folding process and will develop into parts of a sulcus. ^[e]
• Lissencephaly [r]: Condition in which the cortical surface is smooth, as opposed to gyrified. Normal in many mammals and transient in human fetal development but a disorder in humans born with it. ^[e]
• Microcephaly [r]: A congenital malformation of the brain, resulting in a brain size significantly below the age-adjusted average. ^[e]
• Pachygyria [r]: A congenital malformation of the cerebral hemisphere that results in unusually thick convolutions of the cerebral cortex. ^[e]
• Microgyria [r]: A neurodevelopmental disorder in which the gyri on the surface of the brain are smaller but more numerous than normal. ^[e]
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• Neocortex [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cortical thickness [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cortical connectivity [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Grey matter [r]: Add brief definition or description
• White matter [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Myelination [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Developmental biomechanics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Neuronal migration [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Schizophrenia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Autism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Child development [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Neoteny [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tensegrity [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cobblestone [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Intrauterine infection [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cytomegalovirus [r]: Add brief definition or description