Gross Brain

Slices

Tutorial: Know where you are in brain gross sections

  • Use external and internal landmarks to orient yourself quickly

  • Step 1: Recognize the ventricular system and related structures

  • Step 2: Recognize caudate nucleus, internal capsule, basal ganglia, internal capsule, hippocampus

  • Step 3: Recognize key gyri and sulci

Coronal Head Slices (100fps).avi

Video: Slices through the human head

  • Video complied from the NIH National Library of Medicine Visible Human Project