Canine Brain Lateral View

Canine Brain Medial View

Hindbrain Cranial Nerves Lateral View

Sheep Brain Medial View

Equine Brainstem

Dissected Sheep Cerebrum Ventral View

This is a ventral view of a sheep cerebrum (telencephalon). The olfactory bulb is indicated by the yellow pic. An intermediate olfactory tract can be seen entering the rostral commissure (blue pics). Bilateral columns of fornix run through a dissected hypothalamus to end in mamillary bodies (red). A green pic is stuck in a dissected piriform lobe.

Dissected Sheep Brain Dorsal View

The top half of the telencephalon has been removed to reveal lateral ventricles bilaterally. The hippocampus (yellow pic) forms the floor of the lateral ventricle caudally. Red pics mark the corpus callosum caudlly and the septal region rostrally. Blue pics are inserted in bilateral caudate nuclei.

Left Hippocampus in Dissected Equine Brain

The left cerebral hemisphere has been removed except for parts of the rhinencephalon. The hippocampus (red pic) gives rise to axons that form fimbria (orange) and fornix. Columns of the fornix (blue) travel to mamillary bodies. Other axons of the fornix (green) go the the septal region (yellow). The white pic is in corpus callosum.

Hindbrain Cranial Nerves Lateral View

Telencephalon (cerebrum) Components: [NOTE: * = not paired] lamina terminalis* - includes rostral commissure cerebral hemisphere (cerebral cortex, white matter, & basal nuclei) lateral ventricle rhinencephalon - concerned with olfaction olfactory bulb - receives olfactory nerves olfactory tracts (striae) - lateral olfactory stria - to piriform lobe - medial olfactory stria - to septum - intermediate olfactory stria - to rostral commissure piriform lobe - receives olfactory nerves septum - olfactory induced emotion hippocampus - critical for recent memory Surface Features . . . Ventral surface: olfactory bulb (attached to olfactory peduncle lateral & medial olfactory striae (tracts) piriform lobe cerebral cortex (neocortex) - surface gray matter dorsal to the rhinencephalon (lateral rhinal sulcus) Dorsal surface: cerebral cortex (neocortex) gyrus (gyri) - ridge (ridges) sulcus (sulci) - groove (grooves) cruciate sulcus (motor cortex) coronal sulcus (sensory cortex) Median surface: lamina terminalis* & rostral commissure* septum (septal region) - rostral to lamina terminalis corpus callosum (white matter commissure) cerebral cortex (neocortex) Typical-Section Features: gray matter cerebral cortex - surface gray matter paleocortx - covers rhinencephalon neocortex - covers most of cerebrum basal nuclei - internal (deep) gray matter caudate nucleus - motor function putamen - motor function pallidum (globus pallidus) - motor function amygdala (amygdaloid nucleus) - affective behavior (emotion) white matter corpus callosum - commissure for neocortex internal capsule - fibers to/from brainstem lateral ventricle interventricular foramen - to third ventricle