Brain Awareness Week 2012
Introduction
Welcome to "brain awareness"!
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 today.
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| Neural Plate | Neural Tube | Central Nervous System | Central Nervous | Human Adult Brain | Mouse E11.5 microCT scan |
| <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.
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| <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).
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These 3d movies were part of the UNSW Medical degree Independent Learning Project (ILP) prepared by Aashish Kumar (2006).
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