Brain Awareness Week 2012: Difference between revisions
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The human embryo is now 4 weeks old and the neural plate files to form a hollow '''NEURAL TUBE''' | |||
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Revision as of 18:55, 8 March 2012
Welcome to Brain Development
width=320px|height=260px|controller=false|autoplay=true</qt> | In today's demonstration we will be looking at how the brain develops from a simple tube into the complex folded structure you will be seeing (and using) today.
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Here is Human Development
Here is how the human nervous system grows
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Week 3 | Week 4 to 5 | Week 5 | Week 8 | Week 13 to 21 | Adult Human |
Neural Plate | Neural Tube | Simple Tube | Central Nervous | Fetal Brain | Brain Slices |
Here is a developing mouse nervous system
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This movie shows a mouse 11.5 days old. (Mouse development takes 21 days)
Red - brain
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It begins as a Plate
That folds to a Tube
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The human embryo is now 4 weeks old and the neural plate files to form a hollow NEURAL TUBE |