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A fertilised egg is 0.14 mm in diameter. The brain develops from a layer of skin cells called the ectoderm. At 2 weeks the egg has elongated and is 2 mm long. In the first 8 weeks of pregnancy, tissues, organs and systems of the future child are being induced, differentiated and put into place.The [...]
About the brain; almost 80% of the it is made of water (mainly in the cytoplasm of its cells) with a further 10-12% being fatty lipids and 8% protein. Glial cells, in a roughly 10:1 proportion to neurons, form a firm jelly like support system for neurons. They create the insulating myelin, provide structure to the neuronal [...]
The brain is an extraordinarily complex organ which currently attracts huge amounts of research spend and we are closer now to knowing how it all fits together, than ever before. Your brain has around 100 billion neurons, and each communicates with thousands of others – as many connections as in the world’s telephone system, the [...]
Massive amounts of resource are being focused on getting to a clearer understanding of the physiology of our brains with particular emphasis on how to use them effectively and how to repair them when things go wrong. Most countries with access to these sorts of funds are developing national teaching, training and research in neurology [...]
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