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Parent topics
- Nervous system [r]: The control unit of bodily functions in animals. [e]
- Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. [e]
Subtopics
- Myelination [r]: The process by which specialized glial cells ensheath the axons of nerve cells with myelin. [e]
- Axon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]
- Fiber tracking [r]: A set of techniques used to visualize nerve fibres along all their length. [e]
- Neuron [r]: An excitable cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses. [e]
- Glia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nerve [r]: A bundle of nerve fibres that connects the central nervous system with other organs in an animal body. [e]
- Neuroimaging [r]: A group of techniques used to visualize structure and function of nervous systems, especially the vertebrate brain. [e]
- Diffusion tensor imaging [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Neuroanatomy [r]: The branch of anatomy that studies the anatomical organization of the nervous system. [e]
- Brain morphometry [r]: The quantitative study of structures in the brain, their differences between individuals, correlations with brain function, and changes of these characteristics over time. [e]
- Histology [r]: The study of the structure and function of biological tissues. [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]
- Gyrification [r]: The folding process during brain development, or the extent of folding. [e]
- Brain size [r]: Umbrella term for various measures of how big a brain is. [e]
- Cortical connectivity [r]: The degree to which different subunits of the cerebral cortex are linked to each other via nerve fibres. [e]