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- See also changes related to Brain development, or pages that link to Brain development or to this page or whose text contains "Brain development".
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]
- 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]