"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.
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
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211
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| Concept/Terms |
Brain- Brain
- Brains
- Encephalon
- Encephalons
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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.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 15 | 10 | 25 |
| 1996 | 14 | 17 | 31 |
| 1997 | 7 | 16 | 23 |
| 1998 | 13 | 11 | 24 |
| 1999 | 20 | 11 | 31 |
| 2000 | 17 | 23 | 40 |
| 2001 | 15 | 28 | 43 |
| 2002 | 23 | 19 | 42 |
| 2003 | 19 | 24 | 43 |
| 2004 | 25 | 27 | 52 |
| 2005 | 27 | 32 | 59 |
| 2006 | 32 | 18 | 50 |
| 2007 | 28 | 24 | 52 |
| 2008 | 27 | 35 | 62 |
| 2009 | 32 | 31 | 63 |
| 2010 | 33 | 22 | 55 |
| 2011 | 42 | 24 | 66 |
| 2012 | 54 | 38 | 92 |
| 2013 | 47 | 26 | 73 |
| 2014 | 51 | 37 | 88 |
| 2015 | 61 | 44 | 105 |
| 2016 | 52 | 41 | 93 |
| 2017 | 60 | 51 | 111 |
| 2018 | 54 | 45 | 99 |
| 2019 | 67 | 43 | 110 |
| 2020 | 56 | 50 | 106 |
| 2021 | 48 | 76 | 124 |
| 2022 | 8 | 86 | 94 |
| 2023 | 12 | 93 | 105 |
| 2024 | 34 | 63 | 97 |
| 2025 | 35 | 20 | 55 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Brain" by people in Profiles.
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A clinical and genotype-phenotype analysis of MACF1 variants. Am J Hum Genet. 2025 Oct 02; 112(10):2363-2380.
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Multiomic analyses direct hypotheses for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease risk genes. Brain. 2025 Sep 03; 148(9):3350-3363.
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Embracing Scientific Debate in Brain Metabolism. J Neurochem. 2025 Sep; 169(9):e70230.
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Temperament, brain structure and problematic video gaming in adolescence - A six-year longitudinal study. J Behav Addict. 2025 Sep 30; 14(3):1315-1325.
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Mapping the relationships between structural brain MRI characteristics and sleep electroencephalography patterns: the Multi-Ethnic Study of atherosclerosis. Sleep. 2025 Aug 14; 48(8).
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SST-DUNet: Smart Swin Transformer and Dense UNet for automated preclinical fMRI skull stripping. J Neurosci Methods. 2025 Nov; 423:110545.
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Altered Functional Connectivity and Amyloid Deposition in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder-Associated Cognitive Impairment. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2025 Aug 01; 46(8):1660-1669.
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Data-Driven Approach to Dynamic Resting State Functional Connectivity in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: An ENIGMA-PGC PTSD Study. Hum Brain Mapp. 2025 Aug 01; 46(11):e70116.
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Low-dose metformin requires brain Rap1 for its antidiabetic action. Sci Adv. 2025 Aug; 11(31):eadu3700.
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Sleep drive, not total sleep amount, increases seizure risk. Nat Commun. 2025 Jul 29; 16(1):6967.