You have found each of these structures during the course of the brain examinations or dissections that were done in the laboratory. You should be able to identify them again, in some cases from multiple perspectives (e.g., in an external examination and in a coronal section).
Metencephalon
- pons
- cerebellum
- cerebellar peduncles
- trigeminal nerve (V)
- IV ventricle
Mesencephalon
- tectum
- superior colliculus
- inferior colliculus
- cerebral aqueduct
- central (periaqueductal) gray
- tegmentum
- cerebral peduncles
- oculomotor nerve (III)
Diencephalon
- III ventricle
- thalamus
- massa intermedia
- lateral geniculate nucleus
- medial geniculate nucleus
- pulvinar
- anterior nucleus
- habenulla
- posterior commissure
- pineal gland
- hypothalamus
- infundibulum
- anterior commissure
- columns of fornix
- optic chiasm
- optic tract
Telencephalon
- lateral ventricles
- cortex
- medial longitudinal fissure
- sylvian fissure
- rhinal fissure
- cingulate gyrus (cingulum)
- olfactory bulb
- lateral olfactory tract
- medial olfactory tract
- uncus
- cortical white matter
- corpus callosum
- corona radiata
- internal capsule
- external capsule
- optic radiations
- septum pellucidum
- hippocampus
- fimbria
- fornix
- dentate gyrus
- hippocampal fissure
- caudate nucleus
- putamen
- globus pallidus
- amygdala
- septal nuclei
