BRAIN ANATOMY

I have only used one website in Africa, but it is a good one. It is Arthur's Medical Clipart in South Africa. Arthur's medical clipart is old, scanned from old books and papers. He did this because the copyrights had expired. Nevertheless this is a valuable site because there is so much material.
Arthur's material is on gross anatomy, not on microscopic anatomy. Nevertheless there is some material on functional anatomy, which is very complex in the brain. The brain has been a kind of terra incognita for centuries. The functions of various parts of the brain are very important for understanding brain diseases.

This clipart came from Arthur's website in South Africa. It is very old, but the information is still valid.

Needless to say there are many functions not shown in this diagram, including memory, which is thought to reside in the hippocampus. Pathology is seen in the hippocampus in both Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia. Rolando was an early Italian anatomist, and a fissure was named after him.

This drawing shows the various lobes of the brain in color. Subcortical areas are beneath the lobes.

This image, shown courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, is from a 19th century anatomy atlas by Braune, who was the German equivalent of the famous British anatomist Henry Gray.

Shown here is a neuron as depicted in Neuroscience for Kids, an excellent educational website. However, the color does not quite depict reality. Neurons are either grey or white, depending on whether they have a myelin sheath. This one does have a myelin sheath and should be white, which is the color of the sheath. The sheath is made of fat. The sheath is part of the membrane of the cell. In multiple sclerosis and in schizophrenia there is pathology in the myelin.

This clipart also comes from Arthur's Medical Clipart. This schematic does not show the proper proportions, but this is done to highlight certain anatomical features.

This drawing is again not shown in the proper proportions for humans in order to highlight the cerebral nuclei. These cerebral nuclei may be involved in mental disease.

This diagram shows the basal ganglia, which have been implicated in several diseases including schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's chorea, etc. Averback (1981) reported consistent pathology in schizophrenia.

This clipart from Neuroscience for Kids shows the lobes of the brain.

These are the functional areas of the brain according to Neuroscience for Kids, one of my favorite websites (even though I am not a kid).