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In the anatomy of the brain of vertebrates, the forebrain or prosencephalon is the rostral (forward-most) portion of the brain. The forebrain controls body temperature, reproductive functions, eating, sleeping, and the display of emotions.
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- Forebrain (Prosencephalon)
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- Diagram depicting the main subdivisions of the embryonic vertebrate brain. These regions will later differentiate into forebrain, midbrain and hindbrain structures.
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Research
717,743 papers- Parsing the prosencephalon.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2002
- Assembloid CRISPR screens reveal impact of disease genes in human neurodevelopment.Nature · 2023
- Neuropathology of holoprosencephaly.American journal of medical genetics. Part C, Seminars in medical genetics · 2018
- XK aprosencephaly.Clinical dysmorphology · 1998
- Neuroanatomy of memory.Annual review of neuroscience · 1993
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In the anatomy of the brain of vertebrates, the forebrain or prosencephalon is the rostral (forward-most) portion of the brain. The forebrain controls body temperature, reproductive functions, eating, sleeping, and the display of emotions.
Vesicles of the forebrain (prosencephalon), the midbrain (mesencephalon), and hindbrain (rhombencephalon) are the three primary brain vesicles during the early development of the nervous system. At the five-vesicle stage, the forebrain separates into the diencephalon (thalamus, hypothalamus, subthalamus, and epithalamus) and the telencephalon which develops into the cerebrum. The cerebrum consists of the cerebral cortex, underlying white matter, and the basal ganglia.