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Parent topics
- Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
- Developmental biology [r]: The study of how cells grow and interact to form an organism. [e]
- Computational biology [r]: The study of biological systems by computational means [e]
- Comparative morphometry [r]: The study of shapes across species [e]
- Computational morphometry [r]: The study of shapes by computational means. [e]
- Theoretical biology [r]: The study of biological systems by theoretical means. [e]
- Morphology (biology) [r]: The study of biological structure. [e]
- Biophysics [r]: The study of forces and energies in biological systems. [e]
- Biomechanics [r]: The study of the mechanics of biological systems [e]
- Allometry [r]: The study of scaling effects in biology. [e]
- Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]
- Neonatology [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with infants. [e]
- Pediatry [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with children. [e]
- Psychiatry [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with mental disorders. [e]
- Neurology [r]: The medical specialty concerned with evaluating the nervous system and the other system that it affects, and the treatment of nervous system disorders. [e]
- Nervous system [r]: The control unit of bodily functions in animals. [e]
- Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. [e]
- Brain anatomy [r]: A description of how the brain is structured. [e]
- Brain development [r]: The build-up of the brain from ectodermal cells to a complex structure of neurons and glia. [e]
- Brain evolution [r]: The process by which the central nervous system changed over many generations. [e]
- Brain size [r]: Umbrella term for various measures of how big a brain is. [e]
- Cerebral cortex [r]: External tissue layer within the vertebrate central nervous system; home to the nerve cell bodies; important in learning and dementia. [e]
- Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. [e]
- Mathematics [r]: The study of quantities, structures, their relations, and changes thereof. [e]
- Shape description [r]: Mathematical subfield concerned with the quantification of arbitrary shapes. [e]
- Shape classification [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Neuroimaging [r]: A group of techniques used to visualize structure and function of nervous systems, especially the vertebrate brain. [e]
- Bioinformatics [r]: The study of (usually molecular) biological systems by computational means. [e]
Subtopics
- Brain atlas [r]: A reference work in which brain structures are placed in a coordinate system that is standardized for a given species or developmental stage. [e]
- Gyrification [r]: The folding process during brain development, or the extent of folding. [e]
- Cortical surface [r]: A concept used to describe the boundaries — in segmentated images of the brain — of either white matter or cerebrospinal fluid with gray matter, or representations computed on the basis of these two surfaces. [e]
- Cortical thickness [r]: The combined thickness of the cerebral cortex layers. [e]
- Cortical connectivity [r]: The degree to which different subunits of the cerebral cortex are linked to each other via nerve fibres. [e]
- Cortical surface area [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sulcal depth [r]: Add brief definition or description
- CARET (software) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- FSL (software) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Freesurfer (software) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- SPM (software) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Neocortex [r]: The six-layered outer layer of the mammalian brain. [e]
- Gyrus [r]: A ridge on the surface of the cerebral cortex in mammals. [e]
- Sulcus [r]: A fissure on the surface of the cerebral cortex in mammals. [e]
- Sulcal root [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lissencephaly [r]: Condition in which the brain surface is smooth, as opposed to gyrified. Normal in many mammals and transient in human fetal development but a disorder in humans born with it. [e]
- Microcephaly [r]: A congenital malformation of the brain, resulting in a brain size significantly below the age-adjusted average. [e]
- Pachygyria [r]: A congenital malformation of the cerebral hemisphere that results in unusually thick convolutions of the cerebral cortex. [e]
- Microgyria [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Agyria [r]: The lack of convolutions of the cerebral cortex. [e]
- Grey matter [r]: A subset of brain tissue that contains few myelinated axons but the somas of nerve cells, as well as glia and endothelial structures. [e]
- White matter [r]: A subset of brain tissue whose volume is dominated by myelinated axons of nerve cells. [e]
- Myelination [r]: The process by which specialized glial cells ensheath the axons of nerve cells with myelin. [e]
- Developmental biomechanics [r]: The study of the physical forces and energies involved in the patterning of a developing organism. [e]
- Neuronal migration [r]: The process by which nerve cells travel from the place of their last cell division to their final position in the brain. [e]
- Schizophrenia [r]: A mental disorder characterized by impaired perception of the individual's environment. [e]
- Autism [r]: Developmental disability that results from a disorder of the human central nervous system. [e]
- Child development [r]: The ensemble of processes that transform an infant into an adolescent. [e]
- Neoteny [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tensegrity [r]: The structural integrity achieved by balanced pulling and pushing forces in biological structures or architecture; the word is a linguistic blend of tension and integrity. [e]
- Curvature (mathematics) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mean curvature [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gaussian curvature [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Riemannian manifold [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Image segmentation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Topology [r]: A branch of mathematics that studies the properties of objects that are preserved through continuous deformations (such as stretching, bending and compression). [e]
- Spherical topology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Topology correction [r]: A set of procedures in computer graphics that correct inconsistencies in the topology of a surface mesh that has been obtained from noisy imaging data. [e]
- Landmark [r]: A point of reference in real or virtual landscapes. [e]
