Brain Awareness Week 2012

Welcome to Brain Development

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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. This animation shows a real human adult brain being "sliced", the cortex (grey matter) is on the outside.

Here is Human Development

Here is how the human nervous system grows

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 Blue - heart Brown - liver

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