#neuroanatomy — Public Fediverse posts

If I said "totally novel DESCRIPTIVE ANATOMY of the human body in 2026 CE," you would say "female bodies, probably lady parts," and of course you would be correct

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.18.712572v1

#neuroanatomy #clitoris #human #medicine

youtu.be/Za7vj1MiR1o

Didn't think I'd do this this soon, but, oh well...

#theheirslair #review #bookreview #nonfiction #supposedly #nonfictionreview #selfhelp #selfhelpreview #psychology #neuroanatomy

@theguardian_science

The original scientific research findings:

"Neuroanatomy of the clitoris", Ju Yong Lee et al. 2026

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.18.712572v1

#clitoris #neuroscience #neuroanatomy #HumanNeuroanatomy #humans

Neural pathways

#photography #SilentSunday #axon #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #nature #naturephotography #monochrome #tree #branches #life #neuroanatomy #chaos #complex #nonlinear #intricate #quiet #still #meditative

@brainglobe @SWC_Neuro This is excellent news! We're currently piloting rat brain clearing & light-sheet imaging, so this atlas will be very welcome.
#lightsheetmicroscopy #tissueclearing #rodent #neuroanatomy #neuroscience

😺🐻🐰 #satire #humor #parody #cult #surreal #neuroanatomy #neurology #cat #cats #teddy #teddies #art #artificialintelligence

🔗 New story up 🌐

http://nu-relations.com/2025/11/03/a-comparative-pseudo-neuroanatomical-exploration-of-the-cognitive-architecture-in-teddy-bears-and-cats/

La percepción del paso del tiempo describe la experiencia subjetiva del tiempo y como un individuo interpreta la duración de un evento.

Puede variar con el estado emocional, el nivel de atención, la capacidad de memoria y con ciertas enfermedades.

Las cortezas frontal, parietal, el cerebelo, el hipocampo y los núcleos de la base están involucrados. Existen “neuronas del tiempo”.

#TimePerception #TimeCells #Memory #Time #Neurology #NeuroAnatomy #Neurophysiology

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4830363/

It seems reasonable to assume that bigger brains can pack more neurons, so they must be smarter.

But that’s not how evolution works. The brain of a larger animal isn’t just a scaled-up version of a smaller one, it can actually be structured differently. In this article, we explain what that means and why “bigger” doesn’t always mean “more computational power”.

P.S.: Not everything made it into the final version, but I had so much fun reading in-depth about the brain structure of various animals. Just another reminder that nature rules.

https://neurofrontiers.blog/when-it-comes-to-brains-size-doesnt-matter-much/

#neuroscience #neuroanatomy #brain #BrainSize #science

Axial MRI image of a sphenoid wing meningioma.

https://www.ars-neurochirurgica.com/lexikon/keilbeinfluegelmeningeom

#mri #meningioma #neurosurgery #radiology #neuroradiology #anatomy #neuroanatomy #medicine #surgery#anatomy #neurosurgery #neuroanatomy #brain #medicine #medicalstudent #neuroradiology #radiology

Do you know the name of the sulcus colored in red and blue? If yes, post it! The answer will be posted in the comments in the upcoming days!

#neuroanatomy #mri #quiz #medicalquiz #neurosurgery #brain #neuroradiology #neurosurgery #sulcus #medicine #medicalstudent #anatomy

Do you know the name of the sulcus colored in red and blue? If yes, post it!

#neuroanatomy #mri #quiz #medicalquiz #neurosurgery #brain #neuroradiology #neurosurgery #sulcus #medicine #medicalstudent

Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) with its four segments.

More anatomical information about each segment:
German: https://www.ars-neurochirurgica.com/lexikon/arteria-cerebri-media-mca
English: https://www.ars-neurochirurgica.com/en/articles/middle-cerebral-artery-mca

#anatomy #neuroanatomy #brain #radiology #neuroradiology #neurosurgery #medicine #angiography

How to Build a Human Brain by Lynne Barker, 2024

How to Build a Human Brain takes a developmental approach to understanding brain structure and function. It guides readers through the evolution of the human brain, from its cellular building blocks, up to hind brain structures and functions, and through to neocortex and associated functions.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#brain
#neuroscience
#neuroanatomy
#neuropathology

Thomas Willis (1621-1675) : Neurologist, Chemist, Physician

“Willis is not only credited to be the founder of neurology, but he is also seen as the father of comparative neuroanatomy, as his work, in particular Cerebri anatome and De anima brutorum, compare the human brain with that of other species in ‘search for specific human abilities in cognitive functions’ (Molnár, p. 334).”

https://stjohnscollegelibraryoxford.org/2024/05/13/thomas-willis-1621-1675-neurologist-chemist-physician/

#History #Science #STEM #HistSci #Anatomy #Neurology #Neuroanatomy #EarlyModern #C17th #17thCentury #Histodon #Histodons @science @earlymodern @histodon @histodons

#Image attribution: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_Thomas_Willis,_RP-P-1910-415.jpg

Interesting #preprint: New mouse brain atlas links high-resolution MRI and light-sheet imaging, finally placing Allen Brain Atlas coordinates in stereotaxic space.

#tissueclearing was done via LifeCanvas and includes 17 common neuron type markers:

Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.28.587246v1.full

Atlas + webviewer here (requires registration): https://civmimagespace.civm.duhs.duke.edu

#lightsheet #microscopy #neuroscience #neuroanatomy

#DavidEagleman - Are #Brain and #Mind the Same Thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kLhFIeIiVs

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Consciousness #Neuroscience #Neuroanatomy #Physics #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #Biology #Qualia #BrainStates #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

One of the Last Surviving Non-Avian #Dinosaurs Lived in Burrows, Had Super Senses
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/thescelosaurus-neglectus-12431.html

#Neuroanatomy of the late #Cretaceous Thescelosaurus neglectus (Neornithischia: Thescelosauridae) reveals novel ecological specialisations within #Dinosauria https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-45658-3

"#Thescelosaurus neglectus lived in what is now North America just before the end-Cretaceous mass #extinction, around 66 million years ago."

#Preprint 🧠 🐁 The prolactinergic system in the brain of mice: sexual differences and changes during motherhood

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3504208/v1

#Biology #Prolactin #NeuroEndocrinology #NeuroAnatomy #SexDifferences

#RobertStickgold - Why #Sleep?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUmgFtbQ5mM&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfSleep #Mind #Neuroanatomy #Neuroscience #Sleeping #DeepSleep #REM #REMSleep #CoreSleep #Dream #Dreams #Dreaming #EEG #Brain #Consciousness #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#AndyClark - How Do #Human #Brains Function?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXUrAY1jTYI&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfScience #Mind #Perception #Cognition #Imagination #Emotion #Vision #PatternRecognition #Cognition #Psychology #Neuroscience #NeuroAnatomy #NeuroPhysiology #Prediction #TopDown #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#AndyClark - How Do #Human #Brains Function?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXUrAY1jTYI&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfScience #Mind #Perception #Cognition #Imagination #Emotion #Vision #PatternRecognition #Cognition #Psychology #Neuroscience #NeuroAnatomy #NeuroPhysiology #Prediction #TopDown #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#AndyClark - How Do #Human #Brains Function?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXUrAY1jTYI&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfScience #Mind #Perception #Cognition #Imagination #Emotion #Vision #PatternRecognition #Cognition #Psychology #Neuroscience #NeuroAnatomy #NeuroPhysiology #Prediction #TopDown #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#AndyClark - How Do #Human #Brains Function?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXUrAY1jTYI&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfScience #Mind #Perception #Cognition #Imagination #Emotion #Vision #PatternRecognition #Cognition #Psychology #Neuroscience #NeuroAnatomy #NeuroPhysiology #Prediction #TopDown #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#AndyClark - How Do #Human #Brains Function?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXUrAY1jTYI&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfScience #Mind #Perception #Cognition #Imagination #Emotion #Vision #PatternRecognition #Cognition #Psychology #Neuroscience #NeuroAnatomy #NeuroPhysiology #Prediction #TopDown #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#RobertStickgold - The New #Science of #Dreaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ILMEAyxbw0&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #Mind #MindBodyProblem #Neuroanatomy #Neuroscience #Dream #Dreams #Psychology #Evolution #EvolutionaryPsychology #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#NedBlock - Toward a #Science of #Consciousness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmCou0xZLCE&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #PhilosophyOfScience #Mind #TheMind #Awareness #ConsciousAwareness #Qualia #Experience #Materialism #Dualism #Physicalism #PanPsychism #Eliminativism #Neuroanatomy #Neuroscience #NeuralCorrelates #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

Is it just me, or are #MRI people really bad at keeping the difference between afferent and efferent connections straight? There's a whole lot of papers that seem to just assume that if they do #DiffusionTensorImaging, and pick a seed region, that all of the streamlines they get correspond to efferents from that site. And if they cite another paper as evidence, it's often another #DiffusionMRI paper that just asserts the same thing without obvious reference to anatomical ground truth.

If you don't reference an actual #Neuroanatomy paper that worked out which direction(s) your fibers are projecting, you can't claim anything about whether your seed projects to, from, or merely passes through any other ROI along your streamlines! I think a lot of times the answer is indeed known, but cite some real anatomy papers so your readers can tell. This problem isn't universal, but it does seem weirdly common.

Is it just me, or are #MRI people really bad at keeping the difference between afferent and efferent connections straight? There's a whole lot of papers that seem to just assume that if they do #DiffusionTensorImaging, and pick a seed region, that all of the streamlines they get correspond to efferents from that site. And if they cite another paper as evidence, it's often another #DiffusionMRI paper that just asserts the same thing without obvious reference to anatomical ground truth.

If you don't reference an actual #Neuroanatomy paper that worked out which direction(s) your fibers are projecting, you can't claim anything about whether your seed projects to, from, or merely passes through any other ROI along your streamlines! I think a lot of times the answer is indeed known, but cite some real anatomy papers so your readers can tell. This problem isn't universal, but it does seem weirdly common.

Is it just me, or are #MRI people really bad at keeping the difference between afferent and efferent connections straight? There's a whole lot of papers that seem to just assume that if they do #DiffusionTensorImaging, and pick a seed region, that all of the streamlines they get correspond to efferents from that site. And if they cite another paper as evidence, it's often another #DiffusionMRI paper that just asserts the same thing without obvious reference to anatomical ground truth.

If you don't reference an actual #Neuroanatomy paper that worked out which direction(s) your fibers are projecting, you can't claim anything about whether your seed projects to, from, or merely passes through any other ROI along your streamlines! I think a lot of times the answer is indeed known, but cite some real anatomy papers so your readers can tell. This problem isn't universal, but it does seem weirdly common.

#AlvaNoë - How do #Human #Brains #Think and #Feel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb8J_oWCdUs&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #Perception #Consciousness #Sensation #Neuroanatomy #Neuroscience #Neurology #Cognition #AlvaNoe #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

@nadel @cogneurophys
Thanks for doing this! I love this series almost as much as the sight of you following white tie dress code (!!)

At the risk of seeming sycophantic, as a grad student I always appreciated your encyclopedic knowledge esp. "there's nothing new under the sun" earlier work that warrants more recognition, or historical details, a la https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hipo.23027

So I'd love to hear underappreciated or unsung heroes, esp. to counteract the Matthew effect.

more hashtag fun #episodicmemory #contextmemory #neuroanatomy #memory #neuroscience #predictiveCoding #navigation

@nadel @cogneurophys
Thanks for doing this! I love this series almost as much as the sight of you following white tie dress code (!!)

At the risk of seeming sycophantic, as a grad student I always appreciated your encyclopedic knowledge esp. "there's nothing new under the sun" earlier work that warrants more recognition, or historical details, a la https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hipo.23027

So I'd love to hear underappreciated or unsung heroes, esp. to counteract the Matthew effect.

more hashtag fun #episodicmemory #contextmemory #neuroanatomy #memory #neuroscience #predictiveCoding #navigation

@nadel @cogneurophys
Thanks for doing this! I love this series almost as much as the sight of you following white tie dress code (!!)

At the risk of seeming sycophantic, as a grad student I always appreciated your encyclopedic knowledge esp. "there's nothing new under the sun" earlier work that warrants more recognition, or historical details, a la https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hipo.23027

So I'd love to hear underappreciated or unsung heroes, esp. to counteract the Matthew effect.

more hashtag fun #episodicmemory #contextmemory #neuroanatomy #memory #neuroscience #predictiveCoding #navigation

@nadel @cogneurophys
Thanks for doing this! I love this series almost as much as the sight of you following white tie dress code (!!)

At the risk of seeming sycophantic, as a grad student I always appreciated your encyclopedic knowledge esp. "there's nothing new under the sun" earlier work that warrants more recognition, or historical details, a la https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hipo.23027

So I'd love to hear underappreciated or unsung heroes, esp. to counteract the Matthew effect.

more hashtag fun #episodicmemory #contextmemory #neuroanatomy #memory #neuroscience #predictiveCoding #navigation

Above also very much applies to… #neuroanatomy #networkneuroscience #socialneuroscience #cognitivepsychology #biologicalpsychology #socialpsychology #computationalpsychology #anthropology #behavioraleconomics #socialwork #theoryofmind #consciousness #academics

By way of more introduction, another paper (open access):
'Time to Retire the Serial Papez Circuit: Implications for Space, Memory, and Attention'
https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763422003025
We argue the notion of a serial Papez circuit makes no anatomical or functional sense...
Anterior thalamic nuclei and hippocampus conjointly support episodic memory
Focus should shift to how these two structures jointly interact with neocortex
#memory #neocortex #papezcircuit #space #attention #neuroanatomy #neuroscience

@kaitclark @perspektivbrocken This is super helpful - thanks! I’d love to be included. I’m interested in #neuroscience #neuroanatomy #connectomics #networkneuroscience #socialneuroscience #psychology #cognitivepsychology #socialpsychology #clinicalpsychology #sociology #ltp #learning #memory #identity #neuroplasticity #depression #resilience #familydynamics #mentalhealth