Brain Awareness Week 2012: Difference between revisions

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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

Mouse E11.5

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-| <Flowplayer height="588" width="560" autoplay="true">Stage13_3dCNSlarge.flv</Flowplayer>
-| valign="top" |'''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>
-| valign="top" |'''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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-Movie Source: UNSW Embryology [http://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/Movies/CNS3dmodelst22.htm 3D Model Movie - Central Nervous System]
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