Brain Awareness Week 2012

Welcome to "Brain Development"

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.

Movies Week 3 Week 4 - 5 Week 5 Week 8 Week 13 -21 Adult Human Neural Plate Neural Tube Simple Tube Central Nervous Fetal Brain Brain Slices Mouse Embryo Mouse E11.5 <Flowplayer height="588" width="560" autoplay="true">Stage13_3dCNSlarge.flv</Flowplayer> 3 Dimensional Reconstruction Based upon a serial reconstruction from individual embryo slice images. (6 mm pig embryo, approximately Human day 32, Carnegie Stage 13/14 embryo) The ectoderm contributes the neural tube structures of the central nervous system. Below the animation is a more complete description of this system. <Flowplayer height="415" width="400" autoplay="true">Stage22 CNS.flv</Flowplayer> 3 Dimensional Reconstruction Based upon a serial reconstruction from individual embryo slice images (27 mm Human embryo, Carnegie Stage 22 approximate day 56). Colour code:  ‎‎Systems Page | Play  ‎‎GIT Stage 22 Page | Play  ‎‎Cardiovascular Page | Play  ‎‎Stage 22 Neural Page | Play  ‎‎Urogenital Page | Play  ‎‎Skeletal Page | Play These 3d movies were part of the UNSW Medical degree Independent Learning Project (ILP) prepared by Aashish Kumar (2006). Movie Source: UNSW Embryology 3D Model Movie - Central Nervous System