 Brain
"Brain" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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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D001921
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211
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| Concept/Terms |
Brain- Brain
- Brains
- Encephalon
- Encephalons
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Brain" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Brain" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Brain" by people in Profiles.
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Blankman JL, Long JZ, Trauger SA, Siuzdak G, Cravatt BF. ABHD12 controls brain lysophosphatidylserine pathways that are deregulated in a murine model of the neurodegenerative disease PHARC. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Jan 22; 110(4):1500-5.
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Sheridan RL, Schaefer PW, Whalen M, Fagan S, Stoddard FJ, Schneider JC, McConkey B, Cancio LC. Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 36-2012. Recovery of a 16-year-old girl from trauma and burns after a car accident. N Engl J Med. 2012 Nov 22; 367(21):2027-37.
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Greenwald JL, McDermott S, Dighe AS. Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 35-2012. A 69-year-old chronically ill man with weakness, anorexia, and diffuse pain. N Engl J Med. 2012 Nov 15; 367(20):1940-8.
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Koerte IK, Ertl-Wagner B, Reiser M, Zafonte R, Shenton ME. White matter integrity in the brains of professional soccer players without a symptomatic concussion. JAMA. 2012 Nov 14; 308(18):1859-61.
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Jain R, Jackson WC. Beyond the resistance: how novel neurobiological understandings of depression may lead to advanced treatment strategies. J Clin Psychiatry. 2012 Nov; 73(11):e30.
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Gold R, Kappos L, Arnold DL, Bar-Or A, Giovannoni G, Selmaj K, Tornatore C, Sweetser MT, Yang M, Sheikh SI, Dawson KT. Placebo-controlled phase 3 study of oral BG-12 for relapsing multiple sclerosis. N Engl J Med. 2012 Sep 20; 367(12):1098-107.
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Wirth LJ, Plotkin SR, Emerick KS, Cunnane ME, Faquin WC. Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 29-2012. A 49-year-old man with pain and cranial-nerve palsies after treatment of oral cancer. N Engl J Med. 2012 Sep 20; 367(12):1136-47.
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Zhou J, Stiles CD. Asleep at the switch: MEK kinases control transit to gliogenesis in developing cortex. Neuron. 2012 Sep 20; 75(6):940-2.
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Goenka N, Ropper AH. Images in clinical medicine. Cerebral fat embolism. N Engl J Med. 2012 Sep 13; 367(11):1045.
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Poulopoulos A, Soykan T, Tuffy LP, Hammer M, Varoqueaux F, Brose N. Homodimerization and isoform-specific heterodimerization of neuroligins. Biochem J. 2012 Sep 1; 446(2):321-30.
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