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Please help me on these subject 2A03:2880:20FF:8:0:0:FACE:B00C (talk) 05:34, 30 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Update of meningeal layers

I've updated the "three" in "The cerebrum, brainstem, cerebellum, and spinal cord are covered by three membranes called meninges" to "four" using this ref from the below item recently featured in 2023 in science:

Scientists report the discovery of an unknown thin membrane meningeal layer in brain anatomy, the SLYM, that likely plays a role in CSF functions and is both a protective barrier and hosting immune cells that monitor the brain for infection and inflammation.^[1]^[2]

I hope that's okay. There may be more places to add info on/from this study, possibly including in this article and at Cerebrospinal fluid (e.g. in #Regulation). Moreover, it may be good if info on this in Meninges was more detailed or overhauled.

However, somebody else should make any further due updates and quite likely this should wait until there is a review on this(?) If so, please revisit this issue once a review is out; if brief info is due before, please add it.

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^ Charuchandra, Sukanya (30 January 2023). "Scientists discover a new protective layer in the brain". Advanced Science News. Archived from the original on 30 January 2023. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
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Møllgård, Kjeld; Beinlich, Felix R. M.; Kusk, Peter; Miyakoshi, Leo M.; Delle, Christine; Plá, Virginia; Hauglund, Natalie L.; Esmail, Tina; Rasmussen, Martin K.; Gomolka, Ryszard S.; Mori, Yuki; Nedergaard, Maiken (2023). "A mesothelium divides the subarachnoid space into functional compartments". Science. 379 (6627): 84–88. Bibcode:2023Sci...379...84M. doi:10.1126/science.adc8810. PMID 36603070. S2CID 255440992.
- University press release: "Newly discovered anatomy shields and monitors brain". University of Rochester Medical Center via medicalxpress.com. Archived from the original on 7 January 2023. Retrieved 15 February 2023.

Prototyperspective (talk) 22:01, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pairing

I just added a sentence "Brain structures that are not on the midplane exist in pairs, so there are for example two hippocampi and two amygdalae." Could someone put in some more information on this point? Which organs exist as a pair, and which do not? Also, apparently some parts are single, but symmetrical, such as the thalamus. Eric Kvaalen (talk) 17:12, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's really more a matter of bilateral symmetry than of pairing. Regions of the cortex are not functionally symmetrical, either. --Tryptofish (talk) 17:42, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Citation of Kathryn M. Olesko

This essay is a chapter in a book, not a journal article. I don't know how to fix the citation style. LovelyOliveGreen (talk) 20:56, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Charuchandra, Sukanya (30 January 2023). "Scientists discover a new protective layer in the brain". Advanced Science News. Archived from the original on 30 January 2023. Retrieved 15 February 2023.

[2] Møllgård, Kjeld; Beinlich, Felix R. M.; Kusk, Peter; Miyakoshi, Leo M.; Delle, Christine; Plá, Virginia; Hauglund, Natalie L.; Esmail, Tina; Rasmussen, Martin K.; Gomolka, Ryszard S.; Mori, Yuki; Nedergaard, Maiken (2023). "A mesothelium divides the subarachnoid space into functional compartments". Science. 379 (6627): 84–88. Bibcode:2023Sci...379...84M. doi:10.1126/science.adc8810. PMID 36603070. S2CID 255440992.
University press release: "Newly discovered anatomy shields and monitors brain". University of Rochester Medical Center via medicalxpress.com. Archived from the original on 7 January 2023. Retrieved 15 February 2023.

[3] University press release: "Newly discovered anatomy shields and monitors brain". University of Rochester Medical Center via medicalxpress.com. Archived from the original on 7 January 2023. Retrieved 15 February 2023.

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