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.

Anatomie et physiologie du système nerveux en général, et du cerveau en particulier, avec des observations sur la possibilité de reconnoître plusieurs dispositions intellectuelles et morales de l'homme et des animaux par la configuration de leurs têtes / Par F. J. Gall et G. Spurzheim.

Inside the brain / Wellcome Trust.

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

The history of the brain and mind sciences : technique, technology, therapy / edited by Stephen T. Casper and Delia Gavrus.

Note on the preservation of encephala by the zinc chloride / by Professor Rolleston.

An animal model of altered synaptic plasticity : role of PKC-dependent processes / door Monica Di Luca.

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

Leçons sur le cerveau : (cours d'anatomie comparée du Muséum) encéphale envisagé dans son ensemble télencéphale / par R. Anthony.

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The history of the brain and mind sciences : technique, technology, therapy / edited by Stephen T. Casper and Delia Gavrus.

Note on the preservation of encephala by the zinc chloride / by Professor Rolleston.

An animal model of altered synaptic plasticity : role of PKC-dependent processes / door Monica Di Luca.

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

Leçons sur le cerveau : (cours d'anatomie comparée du Muséum) encéphale envisagé dans son ensemble télencéphale / par R. Anthony.