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Occipital lobe
The occipital lobe is the visual processing center of the mammalian brain. The primary visual cortex is Brodmann area 17, located in the interior portion of the occipital lobe at the calcarine sulcus ... > more -
Healthy Aging
Attention Deficit Disorder
Disorders and Syndromes
Sports Medicine
Perception
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Hallucination
A hallucination is a sensory perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus, as distinct from an illusion, which is a misperception of an external stimulus. Hallucinations may occur in ... > more -
Head injury
Head injury is a trauma to the head, that may or may not include injury to the brain. The incidence (number of new cases) of head injury is 300 per 100,000 per year (0.3% of the population), with a ... > more -
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Attention Deficit Disorder
Healthy Aging
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Liver Disease
Foodborne Illness
Encephalopathy
Encephalopathy is a nonspecific term describing a syndrome affecting the brain. Generally, it refers to involvement of large parts of the brain (or the whole organ), instead of identifiable changes ... > more -
Brain tumor
A brain tumor is any intracranial mass created by an abnormal and uncontrolled growth of cells either normally found in the brain itself: neurons, glial cells (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, ependymal ... > more -
Scanning electron microscope
The scanning electron microscope (SEM) is a type of electron microscope capable of producing high resolution images of a sample surface. Due to the manner in which the image is created, SEM images ... > more -
Functional neuroimaging
Functional neuroimaging is the use of neuroimaging technology to measure an aspect of brain function, often with a view to understanding the relationship between activity in certain brain areas and ... > more
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