Tag: cerebral cortex
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Cerebral Cortex Lobes
Read More →: Cerebral Cortex LobesStruggling to see where one region of a brain model ends and the next begins? The four lobes of the brain are the frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital, and grooves called sulci mark where several of them begin and end. This guide works from landmarks first, so you can trace each lobe on a three-dimensional…
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Gray Matter vs White Matter Compared
Read More →: Gray Matter vs White Matter ComparedGray matter vs white matter comes down to composition: gray matter holds nerve cell bodies, while white matter is made of myelinated axons that link them. In the brain gray matter forms a thin surface layer; in the spinal cord the arrangement reverses. Both tissues belong to one system, and neither makes sense alone. For…