Brain development/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. ^[e]
• Developmental biology [r]: The study of how cells grow and interact to form an organism. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Gyrification [r]: The folding process during brain development, or the extent of folding. ^[e]
• Infant growth and development [r]: Normal growth and development of infants measured within a set of height, weight, head circumference and other physical parameters, comparative to age. ^[e]

Other related topics

• 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]
• Brain size [r]: Umbrella term for various measures of how big a brain is. ^[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]
• Cortical thickness [r]: The combined thickness of the cerebral cortex layers. ^[e]
• Neuroanatomy [r]: The branch of anatomy that studies the anatomical organization of the nervous system. ^[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]
• Psychiatry [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with mental disorders. ^[e]
• Altriciality [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Precociality [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Synaptic pruning [r]: The usage-controlled loss of connections between nerve cells during brain development. ^[e]

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