Our Beautiful Brains
With advances in modern technology, neurologists are able to see deeper and closer than ever before at the human brain and its tangle of neurons and their billions of connections. The images in this folder are of our beautiful brain in all its glory
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Inside the Brain: A Photo Journey Through Time
{The Brain Of A Mouse} A cross-section of a mouse's hippocampus — one of the brain's memory centers — reveals its intricate network of neurons, whose soma are shown as small circles. The hippocampus is seen here nestled directly beneath the neocortex, which is the outer layer of the cerebral hemispheres.
Inside the Brain: A Photo Journey Through Time
{View of a Stroke} A brain-imaging method called diffusion MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is relatively new to the field of neuroscience, though it shows promise as a diagnostic tool. Here, an image taken from the brain of a patient who suffered a stroke in the thalamus and midbrain, resulting in damage to certain axons (some are visible at the bottom of the image).
