The part of CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM that is contained within the skull (CRANIUM). Arising from the NEURAL TUBE, the embryonic brain is comprised of three major parts including PROSENCEPHALON (the forebrain); MESENCEPHALON (the midbrain); and RHOMBENCEPHALON (the hindbrain). The developed brain consists of CEREBRUM; CEREBELLUM; and other structures in the BRAIN STEM.
    

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Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.

Human skull: frontal view. Lithograph, c. 1835.

A coal mine in the human brain; representing medical assistance by Tomasz Judym to industrial workers. Colour lithograph by Wongel, 1976.

A human head dissected: "In memoriam". Acrylic painting by R. Ennis, 2001.

Child's head with large temporal lobes and depressed frontal lobe. Drawing, c. 1900.

The central nervous system: two microscopic images of nerves (?). Colour lithograph by F. Reichhold, 1895.

Beobachtung einer auffallenden bisher unerkannten Structur des Seelenorgans bei Menschen und Thieren / von C.G. Ehrenberg.

Anatomy of a brain, upper side. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.

The brain: three figures. Line engraving by A. Bell after F. Vicq-d'Azyr, 1798.

Über das Organ der Seele / S. Th. Sömmerring.

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The central nervous system: two microscopic images of nerves (?). Colour lithograph by F. Reichhold, 1895.

Beobachtung einer auffallenden bisher unerkannten Structur des Seelenorgans bei Menschen und Thieren / von C.G. Ehrenberg.

Anatomy of a brain, upper side. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.

The brain: three figures. Line engraving by A. Bell after F. Vicq-d'Azyr, 1798.

Über das Organ der Seele / S. Th. Sömmerring.