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Towards the side or away from the body
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Towards the middle
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Towards the bottom
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Bottom of the brain
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Rostral/ towards the front
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Caudal/Towards the back
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| Being away from, or distant to, some point |
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| Tissue where there are axons |
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| Any brain area composed predominantely of neural cell bodies (neurons) |
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| Projections going away from a particular brain region (exiting fibers) |
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| projections going to a particular brain region (arriving fivers) |
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| Collections of axons sensing and receiving sensory and motor information |
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| A collection of axons that target regions of the brain |
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| A collection of neurons with similar inputs and outputs, performing similar function |
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| Cavity in the brain that contains cerebral spinal fluid |
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| Cortical/cortex/ cerebral cortex |
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| 2-5mm sheet of tissue covering the brain, comprised of mostly neurons |
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| structures below the cortex (e.g; nuclei of the basal ganglia, hippocampus, amygdala, thalamus, substantia nigra) |
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Imaginary lien drawn between the anterior commissure and the posterior commissure
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a horizontal plane dividing the brain superiorly/inferiorly
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a sagittal plane in the midline
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A vertical plane passing from front to back, dividing the brain laterally/medially
(it is a cut/line from front to back but it doesnt need to be in the middle of brain) |
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| an area of the brain defined by its cytoarchitechture based on broadmann's 1909 parcellation |
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