Brain Awareness Week 2012
From Embryology
Welcome to Brain Development
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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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