| Range |
81.8% cerebral cortex 10.3% cerebellum 7.8% rest of brain Figure link - link %
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| Organism |
Human Homo sapiens |
| Reference |
Azevedo FA, Carvalho LR, Grinberg LT, Farfel JM, Ferretti RE, Leite RE, Jacob Filho W, Lent R, Herculano-Houzel S. Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled-up primate brain. J Comp Neurol. 2009 Apr 10 513(5):532-41. p.536 fig.2PubMed ID19226510
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| Method |
The isotropic fractionator method (described in PMID 15758160) |
| Comments |
82% of brain mass consists of cerebral cortex (including subcortical
white matter) and 42% consists of cerebral cortical
gray matter alone. Basal ganglia, diencephalon,
mesencephalon, and pons, are named collectively “rest of brain,”
or RoB. |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
106398 |