On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello folks:
>
> Can someone go over the telencephalon/diencephalon divisions and major
> structures for me? I would like to rid my brain and nervous system lecture
> of the archaic "midbrain/forebrain" jargon as soon as possible.
I'm not sure why you'd want to do that. It seems to me it's the
other way around: it's the telencephalon/diencephalon terminology
that's archaic. It's like my previous citing of
aubergine/eggplant. When it's food, I like it to sound
impressive, but when it's the brain, give me the plain English
any day.
My personal preference in brain terminology is to refer to the
"brainstem", which I define as the part of the brain you use to
pick it up out of a bottle of formalin.
OK, I relent. My old copy of the classic _Craigie's Neuranatomy
of the Rat (Zeman and Innes, 1963) says something like this:
prosencephalon (forebrain) = diencephalon (interbrain) +
telencephalon (endbrain)
diencephalon = rhinencephalon (smell brain) + telencephalon
(everything else)
mesencephalon (midbrain)
rhombencephalon (hindbrain) = myelencephalon (medulla) +
metencephalon
metencephalon = pons + cerebellum
But I really think these terms are little used today.
-Stephen
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