Organizing the cerebrum

Cerebrum The Dana Forum on Brain Science

©2000 Dana Press The Dana Foundation www.dana.org About the Author: Martin H. Teicher, M.D., Ph.D., directs the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program and is chief, Laboratory of Developmental Psychopharmacology, at McLean Hospital. His recent studies have been of the neurobiological effects of childhood mistreatment and the neurobiology of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. A R T ...

Telencephalon – The Anatomy and Function of the Cerebrum

Asymmetries of the auditory areas of the cerebrum.

A total of 29 human cadaver brains were examined for asymmetries of the left and right Sylvian fissure, Heschl's gyri, and planum temporale. The mean lengths of these structures were all significantly greater on the left side than on the right. There was considerable morphologic variability in these structures as evidenced by the number of Heschl's gyri that ranged from one to three per hemisph...

Telencephalon – The Anatomy and Function of the Cerebrum

The distribution of plaques in the cerebrum in multiple sclerosis.

One of the fundamental problems posed by multiple sclerosis is concerned with the distribution of the pathological lesions called plaques. The literature concerning the histopathology of this disease is immense but a recent review by Lumsden (1955) did not refer to any paper in which the position of plaques in the cerebrum had been determined with any exactitude although such an exact study was...