List of regions in the human brain
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The human brain anatomical regions are ordered following standard neuroanatomy hierarchies. Functional, connective, and developmental regions are listed in parentheses where appropriate.
Contents
Hindbrain (Rhombencephalon)
Myelencephalon
Metencephalon
- Pons
- Pontine cranial nerve nuclei
- chief or pontine nucleus of the trigeminal nerve sensory nucleus (V)
- Motor nucleus for the trigeminal nerve (V)
- Abducens nucleus (VI)
- Facial nerve nucleus (VII)
- vestibulocochlear nuclei (vestibular nuclei and cochlear nuclei) (VIII)
- Superior salivatory nucleus
- Pontine tegmentum
- Superior olivary complex
- Paramedian pontine reticular formation
- Cerebellar peduncles
- Pontine cranial nerve nuclei
- Fourth ventricle
- Cerebellum
Midbrain (mesencephalon)
- Tectum
- Pretectum
- Cerebral peduncle
- Mesencephalic cranial nerve nuclei
- Oculomotor nucleus (III)
- Trochlear nucleus (IV)
- Mesencephalic duct (cerebral aqueduct, aqueduct of Sylvius)
Forebrain (prosencephalon)
Diencephalon
Epithalamus
Third ventricle
Thalamus
- Anterior nuclear group
- Medial nuclear group
- Lateral nuclear group
- Ventral nuclear group
- Metathalamus
- Thalamic reticular nucleus
Hypothalamus (limbic system) (HPA axis)
- Anterior
- Medial area
- Parts of preoptic area
- Medial preoptic nucleus
- Suprachiasmatic nucleus
- Paraventricular nucleus
- Supraoptic nucleus (mainly)
- Anterior hypothalamic nucleus
- Parts of preoptic area
- Lateral area
- Parts of preoptic area
- Lateral preoptic nucleus
- Anterior part of Lateral nucleus
- Part of supraoptic nucleus
- Parts of preoptic area
- Other nuclei of preoptic area
- median preoptic nucleus
- periventricular preoptic nucleus
- Medial area
- Tuberal
- Medial area
- Lateral area
- Tuberal part of Lateral nucleus
- Lateral tuberal nuclei
- Posterior
- Medial area
- Mammillary nuclei (part of mammillary bodies)
- Posterior nucleus
- Lateral area
- Posterior part of Lateral nucleus
- Medial area
- Optic chiasm
- Subfornical organ
- Periventricular nucleus
- Pituitary stalk
- Tuber cinereum
- Tuberal nucleus
- Tuberomammillary nucleus
- Tuberal region
- Mammillary bodies
- Mammillary nucleus
Subthalamus(HPA axis)
Pituitary gland (HPA axis)
Telencephalon (cerebrum) Cerebral hemispheres
red: frontal lobe
orange: parietal lobe
yellow: occipital lobe
green: temporal lobe
blue: cerebellum
black: brainstem
White matter
- Corona radiata
- Internal capsule
- External capsule
- Extreme capsule
- Arcuate fasciculus
- Uncinate fasciculus
Subcortical
- Hippocampus (Medial Temporal Lobe)
- Amygdala (limbic system) (limbic lobe)
- Claustrum
- Basal ganglia
- Basal forebrain
Rhinencephalon (paleopallium)
Cerebral cortex (neopallium)
- Frontal lobe
- Cortex
- Primary motor cortex (Precentral gyrus, M1)
- Supplementary motor cortex
- Premotor cortex
- Prefrontal cortex
- Gyri
- Brodmann areas: 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 24, 25, 32, 33, 44, 45, 46, 47
- Cortex
- Parietal lobe
- Occipital lobe
- Cortex
- Primary visual cortex (V1)
- V2
- V3
- V4
- V5/MT
- Gyri
- Other
- Brodmann areas 17 (V1, primary visual cortex); 18, 19
- Cortex
- Temporal lobe
- Insular cortex
- Cingulate cortex
Neural pathways
- Major dopamine pathways dopamine system
- Serotonin Pathways serotonin system
- Norepinephrine Pathways
Motor systems
Nerves
Neuro endocrine systems
Neuro vascular systems
Dural meningeal system
- Brain-cerebrospinal fluid barrier
- Meningeal coverings
- Epidural space
- Subdural space
- Arachnoid septum
- Ventricular system
- Cerebrospinal fluid
- Subarachnoid space
- Third ventricle
- Fourth ventricle
- Lateral ventricles
- Anterior horn
- Body of lateral ventricle
- Inferior horn
- Posterior horn
- Superior cistern
- Cistern of lamina terminalis
- Chiasmatic cistern
- Interpeduncular cistern
- Pontine cistern
- Cisterna magna
- Spinal subarachnoid space
- Subarachnoid space
- Cerebrospinal fluid
