Brain size/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e]
  • Developmental biology [r]: The study of how cells grow and interact to form an organism. ^[e]
  • Computational biology [r]: The study of biological systems by computational means ^[e]
    • Computational morphometry [r]: The study of shapes by computational means. ^[e]
  • Theoretical biology [r]: The study of biological systems by theoretical means. ^[e]
  • Morphology (biology) [r]: The study of biological structure. ^[e]
  • Biophysics [r]: The study of forces and energies in biological systems. ^[e]
  • Biomechanics [r]: The study of the mechanics of biological systems ^[e]
  • Allometry [r]: The study of scaling effects in biology. ^[e]
• Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. ^[e]
  • Neonatology [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with infants. ^[e]
  • Pediatrics [r]: Branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and the treatment of their diseases. ^[e]
  • Psychiatry [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with mental disorders. ^[e]
  • Neurology [r]: The medical specialty concerned with evaluating the nervous system and the other system that it affects, and the treatment of nervous system disorders. ^[e]
• Nervous system [r]: The control unit of bodily functions in animals. ^[e]
  • Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. ^[e]
    • Neuroanatomy [r]: The branch of anatomy that studies the anatomical organization of the nervous system. ^[e]
    • Brain development [r]: The build-up of the brain from ectodermal cells to a complex structure of neurons, glia and blood vessels. ^[e]
    • Brain evolution [r]: The process by which the central nervous system changed over many generations. ^[e]
    • Brain morphometry [r]: The quantitative study of structures in the brain, their differences between individuals, correlations with brain function, and changes of these characteristics over time. ^[e]
    • Gyrification [r]: The folding process during brain development, or the extent of folding. ^[e]
    • Cerebral cortex [r]: External tissue layer within the vertebrate brain, ensheathed by the pia mater; home to the nerve cell bodies; important in learning and dementia. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Microcephaly [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Encephalisation quotient [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Brain volume [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Brain mass [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Liquor volume [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Body size [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Total intracranial volume [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Neocortex [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cortical thickness [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cortical connectivity [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Grey matter [r]: Add brief definition or description
• White matter [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Myelination [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Developmental biomechanics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Neuronal migration [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Schizophrenia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Autism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Child development [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Neoteny [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tensegrity [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Body size [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Metabolism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kleptoparasitism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sexual selection [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sexual dimorphism [r]: Add brief definition or description

Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)

• Brain evolution [r]: The process by which the central nervous system changed over many generations. ^[e]