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 the adult human brain being "sliced", the cortex (grey matter) is on the outside.

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Movies

Week 3	Week 4 - 5	Week 5	Week 8	Week 13 -21	Adult Human
Neural Plate	Neural Tube	Simple Tube	Central Nervous	Fetal Brain	Brain Slices

Mouse Embryo

Mouse E11.5

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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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3 Dimensional Reconstruction Based upon a serial reconstruction from individual embryo slice images (27 mm Human embryo, Carnegie Stage 22 approximate day 56). Colour code:  ‎‎Systems Page | Play  ‎‎GIT Stage 22 Page | Play  ‎‎Cardiovascular Page | Play  ‎‎Stage 22 Neural Page | Play  ‎‎Urogenital Page | Play  ‎‎Skeletal Page | Play These 3d movies were part of the UNSW Medical degree Independent Learning Project (ILP) prepared by Aashish Kumar (2006). Movie Source: UNSW Embryology 3D Model Movie - Central Nervous System