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The Cellular Laminae

The cellular laminae, also known as Rexed laminae, are the nine layers of gray matter that make up the spinal …

The spinal cord is only second to the brain in its importance to neuronal communication in the human nervous system. …

The major sections of the brain – the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain – can be divided further into subsections. One …

The pons is a structure of the vertebrate nervous system that can be found in the hindbrain, the lowest region …

The midbrain is a portion of the brainstem, positioned above the pons, at the very top of the brainstem, directly …

We arrive at everyone’s favorite part of the brain, the medulla oblongata! This infamous part of the hindbrain controls various …

In a continuation of the journey through the human brain, we arrive at the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is an organ …

In “Little Dorrit”, a book by Charles Dickens, there was an agency that was engaged in a peculiar type of …

The thalamus, or the dorsal and ventral thalamus collectively, are two oval structures made up of gray matter at the …

The epithalamus is another very important in the brain, located in the diencephalon, or forebrain. Within it are the habenular …