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Diencephalon

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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. |- style="text-align: center;" class="hiddenStructure" | colspan="2" |

|- style="text-align: center; line-height: 1;" class="hiddenStructure" | colspan="2" |Reconstruction of periphera nerves of a human embryo of 10.2 mm. (Label for Diencephalon is at left.) |- class="hiddenStructure" |Latin |colspan="2"|diencephalon |- class="hiddenStructure" | |colspan="2"|[subject #189 ] |- class="hiddenStructure" |Part of |colspan="2"| |- class="hiddenStructure" |Components |colspan="2"| |- class="hiddenStructure" |Artery |colspan="2"| |- class="hiddenStructure" |Vein |colspan="2"| |- class="hiddenStructure" |Acronym(s) |colspan="2"| |- class="hiddenStructure" |NeuroNames |colspan="2"|[hier-271] |- class="hiddenStructure" |MeSH |colspan="2"|[A08.186.211.730.385] |- class="hiddenStructure" |Dorlands/Elsevier |colspan="2"|[/] |}

The diencephalon is the region of the brain that includes the thalamus, hypothalamus, epithalamus, and subthalamus. It is derived from the prosencephalon. The diencephalon is located at the midline of the brain, above the mesencephalon of the brain stem.

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Brain: Diencephalon
Diencephalon - [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit]

third ventricle, interventricular foramina, optic chiasm, subfornical organ

epithalamus: pineal body, habenula, habenular nuclei

anterior hypothalamus: paraventricular nucleus, supraoptic nucleus, suprachiasmatic nucleus

intermediate/middle/tuberal hypothalamus: infundibulum, median eminence, arcuate nucleus, ventromedial nucleus

pituitary gland: anterior pituitary, posterior pituitary

posterior hypothalamus: posterior nucleus, mammillary body

subthalamus: subthalamic nucleus

thalamus: pulvinar,medial geniculate nucleus, lateral geniculate nucleus, list of thalamic nuclei

 


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