ANAT 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Thalamus, Temporal Lobe, Brainstem
6 Nov 2020
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Book from de humani corporis fabrica (vesalius 1543) foundational book in modern anatomy. Picture of a human brain: if we look at a human brain, pretty much all we see is cerebral cortex. We can see the cerebellum is fairly large and we can also see a little bit the brainstem. The human is dominated by the cerebral cortex (~80%) and this is one of the reasons why we are more cognitively more complex than other animals. The cerebral cortex is more than a 1 foot squared if we flatten it all out. Nevertheless, there are distinctive anatomical structures that we can identify on most normal human brains. So, we can divide the human brain into distinct anatomical and distinct functional areas based on certain anatomical landmarks. To do this, we first need to understand pattern of these folds, these grooves in the cerebral cortex. We can also see the grooves in the coronal section.
