Brain

"Brain" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The part of CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM that is contained within the skull (CRANIUM). Arising from the NEURAL TUBE, the embryonic brain is comprised of three major parts including PROSENCEPHALON (the forebrain); MESENCEPHALON (the midbrain); and RHOMBENCEPHALON (the hindbrain). The developed brain consists of CEREBRUM; CEREBELLUM; and other structures in the BRAIN STEM.

Descriptor ID	D001921
MeSH Number(s)	A08.186.211
Concept/Terms	Brain Brain Brains Encephalon Encephalons

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Anatomy [A]
Nervous System [A08]
Central Nervous System [A08.186]
Brain [A08.186.211]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Brain" by people in this website by year, and whether "Brain" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 1555 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 87 publications in 2009

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	19	9	28
1997	18	13	31
1998	27	15	42
1999	27	16	43
2000	17	13	30
2001	31	18	49
2002	24	23	47
2003	22	17	39
2004	28	25	53
2005	34	24	58
2006	40	23	63
2007	34	33	67
2008	45	20	65
2009	53	34	87
2010	38	30	68
2011	38	33	71
2012	31	22	53
2013	43	24	67
2014	38	21	59
2015	41	18	59
2016	29	29	58
2017	45	29	74
2018	32	18	50
2019	27	23	50
2020	27	32	59
2021	16	36	52
2022	4	33	37
2023	11	42	53
2024	3	26	29
2025	10	4	14

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Farahbod H, Rogalsky C, Keator LM, Cai J, Pillay SB, LaCroix AN, Fridriksson J, Binder JR, Venezia JH, Saberi K, Hickok G. Audiovisual Synchrony in Left-hemisphere Brain-lesioned Individuals with Aphasia. J Cogn Neurosci. 2025 Nov 01; 37(11):2190-2202.

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Khalife MR, Villarin C, Ruiz JM, McClelland SA, Rabbo KA, Matthew Mahoney J, Scott RC, Hernan AE. Melanocortin 4 Receptor-Dependent Mechanism of ACTH in Preventing Anxiety-Like Behaviors and Normalizing Astrocyte Proteins after Early Life Seizures. eNeuro. 2025 Mar; 12(3).

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Zhu H, Fitzhugh MC, Keator LM, Johnson L, Rorden C, Bonilha L, Fridriksson J, Rogalsky C. How Can Graph Theory Inform the Dual-stream Model of Speech Processing? A Resting-state Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Stroke and Aphasia Symptomology. J Cogn Neurosci. 2025 Mar 01; 37(3):737-766.

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Wu C, Alizadeh M, Kramer MK, Kroen MB, Ziechmann R, Mohamed FB, Wu Q, Johnson CL. Deep Brain Stimulation Electrode Deviations are Associated With Brain Stiffness Interfaces Measured by Magnetic Resonance Elastography. Oper Neurosurg. 2025 Oct 01; 29(4):517-525.

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Musmar B, Adeeb N, Abdalrazeq H, Salim HA, Roy JM, Aslan A, Tjoumakaris SI, Ogilvy CS, Baskaya MK, Kondziolka D, Sheehan J, Riina H, Kandregula S, Dmytriw AA, Abushehab A, El Naamani K, Abdelsalam A, Ironside N, Kumbhare D, Gummadi S, Ataoglu C, Essibayi MA, Keles A, Muram S, Sconzo D, Rezai A, Alwakaa O, Tos SM, Mantziaris G, Park MS, Hanalioglu S, Erginoglu U, P?ppe J, Sen RD, Griessenauer CJ, Burkhardt JK, Starke RM, Sekhar LN, Levitt MR, Altschul DJ, Haranhalli N, McAvoy M, Zeineddine HA, Abla AA, Atallah E, Gooch MR, Rosenwasser RH, Stapleton C, Koch M, Srinivasan VM, Chen PR, Blackburn S, Bulsara K, Kim LJ, Choudhri O, Pukenas B, Smith E, Mosimann PJ, Alaraj A, Aziz-Sultan MA, Patel AB, Savardekar A, Notarianni C, Cuellar HH, Lawton M, Guthikonda B, Morcos J, Jabbour P. Comparative outcomes of arteriovenous malformations treatment in eloquent versus non-eloquent brain: A multicenter study with propensity-score weighting. Int J Stroke. 2025 Aug; 20(7):852-863.

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Skidmore CT. Neuroimaging in Epilepsy. Continuum (Minneap Minn). 2025 Feb 01; 31(1):61-80.

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Kesari A, Maurya S, Sheikh MT, Gupta RK, Singh A. Large blood vessel segmentation in quantitative DCE-MRI of brain tumors: A Swin UNETR approach. Magn Reson Imaging. 2025 May; 118:110342.

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Yadav VK, Sharma S, Maurya S, Singh RK, Saini J, Jain P, Patir R, Ahlawat S, Das S, Vaishya S, Agarwal S, Singh A, Gupta RK. Presence of Fragmented Intratumoral Thrombosed Microvasculature in the Necrotic and Peri-Necrotic Regions on SWI Differentiates IDH Wild-Type Glioblastoma From IDH Mutant Grade 4 Astrocytoma. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2025 Jul; 62(1):258-270.

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Newberg AB. Neurotheology: Practical Applications with Regard to Integrative Psychiatry. Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2025 Feb; 27(2):105-111.

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Shoshan Y, Gomori MJ, Moss L, Bari SE, Edery N, Den RB, Arazi L, Popovtzer A, Feldman J, Moscovici S. Stereotactic implantation of diffusing alpha-emitters radiation therapy sources in the swine brain: a potential new focal therapy for brain tumors. J Neurooncol. 2025 Apr; 172(2):387-396.

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