False-colour Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) of a mid-sagittal section through a human head, showing structures of a normal brain, airways & facial tis

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False-colour Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) of a mid-sagittal section through a human head, showing structures of a normal brain, airways & facial tissues. The heavily-folded cerebral cortex (the brain's grey matter), which forms the outer part of the cerebrum, is outlined in green & yellow. The bright red curved feature at the centre of the brain is the corpus callosum, a band of nervous tissue that connects the two cerebral hemispheres. The red & yellow oval feature in centre of image is part of the brainstem, an enlarged extension of the spinal cord (yellow at top, blue at bottom) that is visible running down the neck.

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Photo credit: © CNRI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: anatomy, body, brain, false-coloured, human, nervous, neuroimaging, nmr, scan, system