Side view of human brain Top view of fish brain

Top view of frog brain ANTERIOR

Slide 8 One popular plane of section is transverse (coronal for the human forebrain). This plane of section is perpendicular to the neuraxis.

Retrograde (SMN) and transsynaptic retrograde (PN) biocytin labelling in a sonic fish (Bass)

For humans, the ventral spinal cordIS anterior.

Thus, anterior horn cells AREventral motor neurons.

Posterior

Anterior

olfactory

optic trigeminal acoustic

I

II V VIII

posterior

Midbrain

From Bass and Baker

Diencephalon:Thalamus dorsallyHypothalamus ventrally

Mid saggital section; human Horizontal section; ant to cerebral flexure

Thalamus: lateral geniculate nucleusHypothalamus and limbic system

Forebrain: telencephalon and diencephalon

Top view (horizontal plane) of developing mammalian forebrain:Relation of basal ganglia (telencephalon) to thalamus (diencephalon)

Side view of human brain Top view of fish brain

Top view of frog brain ANTERIOR

anterior

anterior

The homunculus:somatotopy

Multiple maps