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Outline of the human brain

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the human brain:

Structure of the human brain

Visible anatomy

Microscopic level anatomy

History of the human brain

Brain development

This development section covers changes in brain structure over time. It includes both the normal development of the human brain from infant to adult and genetic and evolutionary changes over many generations.

Typical brain function

This section covers typical brain function as opposed to atypical function discussed below.

Sensory input

Integration

Affect

Mind / body

Memory

Integration and cognition

  • Sleep
  • Neuroscience of sleep – the study of the neuroscientific and physiological basis of the nature of sleep and its functions
  • Sleep and memory – memory processes have been shown to be stabilized and sped up by sleep. Certain sleep stages are noted to improve an individual's memory.
  • Microsleep – an episode of sleep lasting from fraction of a second to thirty seconds
  • Dreaming
  • Abstraction – a process by which concepts are derived from the usage and classification of literal concepts
  • Imagination – the ability to form new images and sensations that are not perceived through sight, hearing, or other senses
  • Wakefulness
  • Pre-attentive processing – the unconscious accumulation of information from the environment
  • Preconscious – information that is available for cognitive processing but that currently lies outside conscious awareness
  • Neural oscillation
  • Resting state fMRI
  • Default mode network – network of brain regions that are active when the individual is awake but not focused on the outside world
  • Task-positive network – network of brain regions that are active during goal-oriented activity
  • Attention
  • Mindfulness
  • Brain activity and meditation
  • Research on meditation – a growing subfield of neurological research regarding what happens in the bodies and brains of people who meditate regularly
  • Yoga-nidra – conscious awareness of the deep sleep state

Logic, computation, and information aspects

Executive function

  • Supervisory attentional system – higher level system involved with elements of planning, inhibition, and abstraction of logical rules
  • Metastability in the brain – the ability to make sense out of seemingly random environmental cues
  • Neuroscience of free will – some actions are initiated and processed unconsciously at first, and only consciousnessly afterward
  • Neuroeconomics – studying human decision making using techniques from neuroscience, psychology, and economics
  • Neurophilosophy – exploration of the relevance of neuroscientific studies to the arguments traditionally categorized as philosophy of mind
  • Neural basis of self – using modern concepts of neuroscience to describe a human's perception of self-understanding
  • Mentalism (psychology) – branches of study that concentrate on mental perception and thought processes
  • Theory of mind
  • Animal cognition
  • Lying
  • Lie detection – questioning techniques and technologies to discern truth from falsehood

Motor output and behavior

  • Motor skill – a learned sequence of movements that combine to produce a smooth, efficient action to master a particular task
  • Muscle memory – the retention in the brain of memories of certain muscle movements, often enabling those specific movement to be duplicated in the future
  • Behavioral neuroscience

Sexuality, sex differences, and gender differences

Higher level functioning

Atypical brain function

This section covers the major known deviations from typical brain functioning with an emphasis on the resulting magnitude of overall human suffering.

Physical interventions

This section covers attempts to physically alter the brain state to relieve suffering, address atypical functioning or improve performance.

Other

Case histories

See also

External links