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Building Different Vertebrate Brains

Michael B. Pritz, M.D., Ph.D.      
                     Department of Neurological Surgery and Stark Neurosciences Research Institute;
                     Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana

Development and evolution are the 2 major forces producing differences in vertebrate brains. This talk will address 2 areas.  One part will examine similarities and differences in forebrain  organization among adult reptiles, birds and mammals.  The other will focus on early brain development  of classic brain divisions to highlight where and when evolution can take place to produce different adult vertebrate brains.

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