Regional anatomy

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The brain, brainstem and spinal cord, and the way the parts sit against one another.

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Not shown here. Tracts, nuclei and the internal structure of the brain are not modelled: this is external and sectional form only.

Structures in this region

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The organ filling the cranial cavity, with the folded cerebral hemispheres above and the brainstem and cerebellum below and behind.

Behind and below the cerebrum, with a deeply folded surface.

The lowest part of the brainstem, continuous with the spinal cord.

Continues from the medulla and runs down inside the vertebral column.

Sits in the sella turcica, a bony cavity of the skull, and is attached to the hypothalamus by a stalk.

The brain with the cerebral hemispheres, cerebellum and brainstem, continuous with the spinal cord, and the peripheral nerves leaving it.