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- See also changes related to Cerebral cortex, or pages that link to Cerebral cortex or to this page or whose text contains "Cerebral cortex".
Parent topics
- Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. [e]
- Nervous system [r]: The control unit of bodily functions in animals. [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]
Subtopics
- Neocortex [r]: The six-layered outer layer of the mammalian brain. [e]
- Archicortex [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paleocortex [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gyrification [r]: The folding process during brain development, or the extent of folding. [e]
- Brain development [r]: The build-up of the brain from ectodermal cells to a complex structure of neurons, glia and blood vessels. [e]
- Brain evolution [r]: The process by which the central nervous system changed over many generations. [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]
- Surface-based morphometry [r]: A set of computer graphics techniques used to analyze the surface structure of the brain. [e]
- Neuroimaging [r]: A group of techniques used to visualize structure and function of nervous systems, especially the vertebrate brain. [e]
- Cerebrospinal fluid [r]: The liquid in which the central nervous system is embedded. [e]
- Pia mater [r]: The innermost of the meninges; surrounds the entire brain and spinal cord, descends into sulci. [e]
- Dura mater [r]: Add brief definition or description
- White matter [r]: A subset of brain tissue whose volume is dominated by myelinated axons of nerve cells. [e]
- Subcortex [r]: The parts of the brain surrounded by the cerebral cortex. [e]
- Basal ganglia [r]: A cluster of nerve cell bodies at the base of the forebrain in vertebrates. [e]
- Limbic system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Brain development [r]: The build-up of the brain from ectodermal cells to a complex structure of neurons, glia and blood vessels. [e]
- Pain physiology [r]: Science of the functions and phenomena of tissue-damaging or potentially tissue-damaging stimulus. [e]
- Pachygyria [r]: A congenital malformation of the cerebral hemisphere that results in unusually thick convolutions of the cerebral cortex. [e]