Introduction

The human brain is one of the most fascinating and intriguing areas of the human body, and attracts neuroscientists into finding more about its structure and function simply because we know so very little about it! In order to understand how something works we must understand how it is built; this is where developmental neurobiologists step in. Early brain development can provide vast information about how neurons connect to one another, react in necrosis and apoptosis (cell death) whilst also highlighting what happens when things go wrong in relation to neuronal dysfunction and disease.

This website is here to help navigate your way through the fundamentals of early brain development, focussing on how the brain defines its axis, as well as how neurons themselves find and stabilize their locations in the brain. 

Hippocampal Pyramidal neuron. Image courtesy of  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pyramidal_hippocampal_neuron_40x.jpg  This file is licensed under creative commons license