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A short atlas classroom sequence
Use the region atlas on this home page — lesson pins, not a diagnosis.
- Find Frontal Lobe — Locate the frontal region on the published atlas diagram.
- Contrast Hippocampus and Amygdala — Pin hippocampus versus amygdala as neighboring functions, not a fear score.
- Find Occipital Lobe — Close on the occipital lobe where vision processing sits on the atlas.
- Lesson, not diagnosis — Region-pair choices are for learning anatomy, not labeling a person.
Three regions, one pass — enough for a classroom hour.
Atlas labels follow published names in your language; missing atlas data hides the pair tool.
Second classroom minute: dual-view pin
After the atlas pass on frontal / hippocampus / amygdala / occipital, pin one published pair side by side — still literacy, not diagnosis.
- Keep the first four names — Leave Frontal Lobe, Hippocampus, Amygdala, and Occipital Lobe as the classroom set from the first pass.
- Open dual-view once — Use the dual-view or pair control already on this atlas page for one teaching contrast.
- Read one tip only — Pick one published tip card beside the pair. Do not stack a diagnosis story.
- Close the minute — One pair + one tip is enough for a classroom minute. No clinical clearance.
A dual-view pin after the four-region atlas pass is the honest second classroom decision on this home atlas.
Neuroanatomy literacy only. Not medical diagnosis.
One region this minute
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Cognition
Memory, learning, attention, language, emotion, perception, pain, decisions, sleep, plasticity, consciousness, aging, executive function, social cognition, motor control, belief and contemplative practice.
Memory
How the brain encodes, stores and retrieves experience across systems.
Research 75 🎯Attention
Selecting what enters awareness — and what the brain must ignore.
Research 88 💬Language
Speech, comprehension and the cortical networks that make meaning.
Research 74 💓Emotion
Affective circuits linking body states, appraisal and social meaning.
Research 67 ⚖️Decision-Making
Value, risk and control — how choices emerge from competing signals.
Research 66 😴Sleep
Oscillations, stages and the nightly work of memory and repair.
Research 97 🔄Neuroplasticity
How experience rewires synapses, maps and recovery trajectories.
Research 50 ✨Consciousness
Awareness, reportability and the hard problem still facing science.
Research 89 📚Learning
How practice, prediction and reward reshape circuits over time.
Research 90 👁️Perception
Building a usable world from noisy sensors and prior expectations.
Research 77 🔥Pain
A protective percept built from nociception, context and prediction.
Research 74 ⏳Brain Aging
Lifelong change in structure, networks and cognitive reserve.
Research 57 ✨Belief, Expectation & Becoming
Where self-help, manifestation metaphors and religious hope meet expectancy, attention and prediction — and where they overclaim.
Research 78 🕯️Contemplative Practice
Meditation, prayer and liturgy as trained attention and regulation — evidence, limits and cultural context.
Research 82 🧭Executive Function
Working memory, inhibition and cognitive flexibility — the control system that steers thought and action toward goals.
Research 88 🤝Social Cognition
How brains read minds, faces and norms — theory of mind, empathy and the networks that make us social.
Research 85 🏃Motor Control
From intention to muscle — cortico-basal ganglia-cerebellar loops that select, time and correct movement.
Research 90Disorders
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke, epilepsy, depression, schizophrenia, migraine, ADHD, autism, MS, TBI, addiction, anxiety, bipolar and PTSD.
Alzheimer's Disease
Progressive dementia driven by protein pathology and network failure.
Research 74 🤲Parkinson's Disease
Dopamine circuit loss, movement symptoms and non-motor features.
Research 54 ⚡Stroke
Sudden vascular injury — time, territory and the race to recover.
Research 64 ⚡Epilepsy
Hyperexcitable networks, seizures and modern treatment options.
Research 95 🌧️Depression
Mood circuits, stress biology and evidence-based interventions.
Research 66 🌀Schizophrenia
Perception, belief and cognition when predictive models go awry.
Research 93 💢Migraine
Sensory gain, aura and the brain’s recurrent pain networks.
Research 74 📱ADHD
Attention control, impulsivity and developmental self-regulation.
Research 51 🧩Autism Spectrum
Neurodevelopmental diversity in social communication and sensory processing.
Research 89 🧬Multiple Sclerosis
Immune attack on myelin — disconnection across white-matter highways.
Research 80 🩹Traumatic Brain Injury
Mechanical insult, diffuse injury and the long arc of recovery.
Research 87 🔁Addiction
Compulsive seeking when reward prediction and control circuits tip.
Research 69 😰Anxiety
Threat circuitry, worry loops and avoidance — how brains over-predict danger and how care can recalibrate risk.
Research 86 ⚖️Bipolar Disorder
Mania, depression and the networks between — mood-state biology, sleep disruption and evidence-based stabilising care.
Research 84 🛡️PTSD
Trauma memory, hyperarousal and avoidance — how threat learning overgeneralises and how evidence-based care supports recovery.
Research 87Methods
fMRI, EEG, PET, TMS, MEG, diffusion MRI, optogenetics, connectomics and intracranial EEG.
fMRI
Blood-oxygen signals that map task and resting-state networks.
Research 70 📈EEG
Millisecond electrical rhythms from scalp and intracranial arrays.
Research 95 💉PET
Molecular imaging of metabolism, receptors and pathology tracers.
Research 79 📡TMS
Noninvasive magnetic pulses that briefly perturb cortical circuits.
Research 70 💡Optogenetics
Light-gated control of genetically defined neuron populations.
Research 58 🕸️Connectomics
Mapping wiring diagrams from synapse to whole-brain networks.
Research 79 📡MEG
Millisecond magnetic fields that map cortical dynamics noninvasively.
Research 83 🧭Diffusion MRI
Water diffusion that reveals white-matter pathways in vivo.
Research 51 🔌Intracranial EEG
Electrocorticography and depth electrodes — millimetre-scale human recordings that reveal high-frequency dynamics surgery can see.
Research 82Pioneers
Cajal, Broca, Wernicke, Penfield, Hubel & Wiesel, Kandel, Damasio, Livingstone, Levi-Montalcini, O'Keefe and Brenda Milner.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
The neuron doctrine — drawing the brain cell by cell.
Research 58 🗣️Paul Broca
Speech production and the birth of modern localization.
Research 69 👂Carl Wernicke
Comprehension aphasia and the language network idea.
Research 58 🗺️Wilder Penfield
Cortical maps from the operating room — the sensory homunculus.
Research 85 👁️Hubel & Wiesel
How visual cortex builds edges, columns and critical periods.
Research 58 🐌Eric Kandel
Learning as synaptic change — from Aplysia to human memory.
Research 93 ❤️Antonio Damasio
Feeling, self and somatic markers in decision circuits.
Research 78 🎨Margaret Livingstone
Vision, art and how cortex separates colour, form and motion.
Research 74 🧪Rita Levi-Montalcini
Nerve growth factor — discovering how neurons survive and wire.
Research 97 🗺️John O'Keefe
Place cells and the cognitive map inside the hippocampus.
Research 51 🧠Brenda Milner
Cognitive neuroscience pioneer — patient H.M., memory systems and the lasting lesson that lesions can dissociate what looks unified.
Research 80