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The brain and spinal cord can be easily identified from the embryonic period of life. They grow rapidly during early fetal life with different parts of the brain growing at different rates throughout gestation and early postnatal life. This chapter gives a brief summary of embryology and macroscopic changes in the central nervous system (CNS) with microscopic descriptions and examples of the normal histology of different parts of the brain and spinal cord at various gestational ages.
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Rajaram, V., Rajaram, V. (2011). Brain and Spinal Cord. In: Ernst, L., Ruchelli, E., Huff, D. (eds) Color Atlas of Fetal and Neonatal Histology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0019-6_27
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