Brain Awareness Week 2012: Difference between revisions
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This embryo is the whole human embryo at just 3 weeks after fertilisation. | This embryo is the whole human embryo at just 3 weeks after fertilisation. | ||
* the entire nervous system will form from the flat region shown in blue. | * the entire nervous system will form from the flat region shown in blue. | ||
** this is called the <font color=deepskyblue>'''NEURAL PLATE'''</font> . | ** this is called the <font color=deepskyblue>'''NEURAL PLATE'''</font>. | ||
* the broad blue region at the top will form the brain. | * the <font color=deepskyblue>'''broad blue region'''</font> at the top will form the '''brain'''. | ||
* the narrow blue region at the bottom will form the spinal cord. | * the <font color=deepskyblue>'''narrow blue region'''</font> at the bottom will form the '''spinal cord'''. | ||
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Revision as of 18:50, 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
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
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This embryo is the whole human embryo at just 3 weeks after fertilisation.
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