Friday, December 2, 2011

Butterfly...

..or coronal slice of prefrontal cortex?
You be the judge.


Bregma +4.7, perhaps? Olfactory bulb before the white matter starts connecting the hemispheres...



 (Image borrowed from Masini CV et al (2010). Accessory and main olfactory systems influences on predator odor-induced behavioral and endocrine stress responses in rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 207, 70-77.



Puppy dog...




                                     

or caudal visual cortex and midbrain? Bregma -6.8, or perhaps -7.3...


(Image borrowed from Nitz DA & Mcnaughton BL. (1999). Hippocampal EEG and unit activity responses to modulation of serotonergic median raphe neurons in the freely behaving rat. Learning & Memory, 6, 153-67.)



Wishing the pictures of the Paxinos and Watson rat brain atlas were not copyright protected, but still wanting to get my point across. I see brain shapes everywhere!

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