Anatom3DCerebrum
Cerebrum · Koncový mozek
Nervous system
Looks like
The two big wrinkled halves of the brain, a grey surface over white wiring.
What it does
Everything conscious: seeing, moving on purpose, language, memory and personality.
Keeping it well
Blood pressure control, exercise, sleep and hearing aids are linked to lower dementia risk; no supplement has been shown to help.
Its parts
- Frontal lobe
- Parietal lobe
- Temporal lobe
- Occipital lobe
- Insular cortex
- Claustrum
- Cingulate cortex
- Corpus callosum
- Basal ganglia
- Limbic system
- Cerebral white matter
- Anterior commissure
- Anterior part of superior temporal gyrus
- Lamina terminalis
- Orbital gyrus
- Posterior commissure
- Posterior part of superior temporal gyrus
- Septum of telencephalon
- Stria terminalis
Related conditions
- Acute liver failure
- ADHD
- Adjustment disorder
- African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
- Alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens
- Altitude sickness
- Alzheimer's disease
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Birth asphyxia (hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy)
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Botulism
- Brain abscess
- Brain aneurysm
- Brain tumour (glioma & meningioma)
- Burnout
- Cerebral palsy
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic insomnia
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Cluster headache
- Concussion (mild TBI)
- Conduct disorder
- Congenital hypothyroidism
- Cryptococcal meningitis
- Delirium
- Dementia with Lewy bodies
- Dissociative disorders
- Down syndrome (trisomy 21)
- Drowning
- Dyslexia
- Eating disorders
- Encephalitis
- Epilepsy
- Essential tremor & dystonia
- Fainting (syncope)
- Febrile seizures
- Fibromyalgia
- Fragile X syndrome
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Frontotemporal dementia
- Functional (somatic) symptom disorder
- Gambling disorder
- Generalised anxiety disorder
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Haemorrhagic stroke
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Hepatic encephalopathy
- Huntington's disease
- Hydrocephalus
- Hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar)
- Intellectual disability
- Ischaemic stroke
- Japanese encephalitis
- Lead poisoning
- Long COVID (post-viral syndrome)
- Lyme disease
- Major depressive disorder
- ME/chronic fatigue syndrome
- Measles
- Medication-overuse headache
- Meningitis
- Migraine
- Multiple sclerosis
- Myasthenia gravis
- Narcolepsy
- Neurocysticercosis
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Panic disorder
- Parkinson's disease
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Phenylketonuria (PKU)
- Poisoning & overdose
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Postnatal depression
- Postpartum psychosis
- Premenstrual syndrome and PMDD
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Roseola (sixth disease)
- Schizophrenia
- Self-harm and suicidal crisis
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Social anxiety disorder
- Specific phobia
- Squint & lazy eye
- Subdural haematoma
- Substance use disorder
- Tension-type headache
- Tetanus
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
- Tick-borne encephalitis
- Tics and Tourette syndrome
- Tinnitus
- Toxoplasmosis & CMV
- Transient ischaemic attack
- Traumatic brain injury (moderate to severe)
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Vascular dementia
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies