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Brain Structure and Its Origins

Subjects: Anatomy · Science

Art: Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852—1934); uploaded to…, Fig retine, 1911 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. Gerald E. Schneider
Term: Spring 2014
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 35 videos · 2 exams · 1 solution · 1 lecture note · 23 readings · 140 other files · 5 web pages
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Brain Structure and Its Origins

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1. Introduction: brain orientation, primitive cellular activities

2. Introduction: methods and primitive cellular activities

3. Steps to the CNS of chordates, part 1

4. Steps to the CNS of chordates, part 2

5. Specializations in the evolving CNS, part 1

6. Specializations in the evolving CNS, part 2

7. Spinal cord development and anatomy, part 1

8. Spinal cord development and anatomy, part 2

9. Autonomic nervous system; differentiation of the brain vesicles and intro to the hindbrain and segmentation

10. Differentiation of the brain vesicles, part 1: Hindbrain and cranial nerves, specializations

11. Differentiation of the brain vesicles, part 2: Developmental distortions; evolution of midbrain and forebrain; midbrain organization

12. Differentiation of the brain vesicles, part 3: Vertebrate forebrain evolution and organization

14. CNS differentiation and axon growth, part 2

15. Motor systems and brain states, part 1

16. Motor systems and brain states, part 2

17. Motor systems and brain states, part 3

18. Motor systems and brain states, part 4

21. Visual systems, part 1

22. Visual systems, part 2

23. Visual systems, part 3

24. Auditory systems, part 1

25. Auditory systems, part 2

26. Forebrain evolution

27. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 1

28. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 2

29. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 3

30. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 4

31. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 5

32. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 6

33. Corpus striatum, part 1

34. Corpus striatum, part 2

35. Neocortex, part 1

36. Neocortex, part 2

37. Neocortex, part 3

38. Plasticity in brain connections