The Human Nervous System in Everyday Behavior
The Big Picture of Human Anatomy and Neuroanatomy. Page down for images and explanations of the human nervous system. For my most recent blogs scroll to the bottom of the list. A midline or sagittal cut divides the brain into right and left halves, with one cerebral hemisphere and half of the brainstem and cerebellum. A coronal cut is right down through the face, showing both left and right halves. An axial cut is horizontal, from the front to the back.
This image is a brain I dissected, cut down the corpus callosum and through the brainstem and cerebellum. The bright white streaks are axons from the corticospinal tract transversing the ventral pons and medulla of the brainstem.
A midline cut right down the middle of the horizontal fissure showing the left hemisphere
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Blood supply images Blood Supply to the Brain
Cranial nerves Cranial Nerves
Spinal Cord Spinal Cord Images
A coronal cut through the brain. The dark structures in the center are components of the basal ganglia
The dark or gray matter around the periphery of the brain in this photo is the six layered cortex where the neuron cell bodies reside
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The Human Nervous System
What makes up the human nervous system? How does it manage everyday behavior?
This website and blog will take you on a journey to discover how the human nervous system, normally and abnormally, affects our everyday behavior. Behaviors like eating, sleeping, dreaming, sex, language, thought, aggression, perception, memory, intentionality, and consciousness
An axial cut showing the dark cell bodies of the basal ganglia
My Books
I’m working on a set of books looking at the big pictures of the nervous system, the autonomic nervous system, human anatomy, as well as essays on human consciousness. I will try and keep this link updated to my available books or you can search for them on Amazon.com
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