Brain

"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.

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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
MeSH Number(s)	A08.186.211
Concept/Terms	Brain Brain Brains Encephalon Encephalons

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Anatomy [A]
Nervous System [A08]
Central Nervous System [A08.186]
Brain [A08.186.211]

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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.

Bar chart showing 1232 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 66 publications in 2021

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	11	4	15
1996	12	7	19
1997	9	4	13
1998	9	6	15
1999	8	3	11
2000	10	3	13
2001	13	4	17
2002	26	11	37
2003	21	14	35
2004	26	15	41
2005	19	15	34
2006	28	17	45
2007	14	15	29
2008	27	18	45
2009	31	22	53
2010	28	21	49
2011	31	20	51
2012	35	22	57
2013	33	14	47
2014	35	20	55
2015	33	25	58
2016	31	9	40
2017	29	22	51
2018	33	21	54
2019	37	26	63
2020	26	24	50
2021	22	44	66
2022	4	37	41
2023	7	35	42
2024	23	33	56
2025	21	9	30

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Jeffries AM, Yu T, Ziegenfuss JS, Tolles AK, Baer CE, Sotelo CB, Kim Y, Weng Z, Lodato MA. Single-cell transcriptomic and genomic changes in the ageing human brain. Nature. 2025 Oct; 646(8085):657-666.

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Andersen JV, Aldana BI, Bak LK, Behar KL, Borges K, Carruthers A, Cumming P, Derouiche A, D?az-Garc?a CM, Drew KL, Duarte JMN, Ferreira GC, Giove F, Gjedde A, Hyder F, Ioannou MS, Kann O, Kristian T, Lai JCK, Mason GF, McNay EC, Nedergaard M, Nowak TS, Patel AB, Rae CD, Ryan TA, Schuck PF, Simpson IA, Vannucci SJ, Waagepetersen HS, Yellen G, McKenna MC. Embracing Scientific Debate in Brain Metabolism. J Neurochem. 2025 Sep; 169(9):e70230.

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Troller-Renfree SV, Gray KN, Sandre A, Hart ER, Sperber JF, Dettmer AM, Meyer JS, Noble KG. Associations Between Prenatal Maternal Stress and Infant Resting Brain Activity: A Preregistered Investigation. Dev Psychobiol. 2025 Sep; 67(5):e70068.

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Sullivan EV, Sassoon SA, Pohl KM, Saranathan M, Zahr NM, Pfefferbaum A. Physiological and brain mechanisms contributing to postural tremor in aging with and without alcohol use disorder. Transl Psychiatry. 2025 Sep 01; 15(1):338.

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Iwanowicz A, Boudi A, Seeley C, Sapp E, Miller R, Liu S, Chase K, Shing K, Batista AR, Siena-Esteves M, Aronin N, DiFiglia M, Kegel-Gleason KB. Intrastriatal Delivery of a Zinc Finger Protein Targeting the Mutant HTT Gene Allele Obviates Lipid Phenotypes in Brain and Plasma in Huntington's Disease?Mice. Hum Gene Ther. 2025 Aug; 36(15-16):1083-1094.

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Li Q, Koehler S, Koenig A, Dyrba M, Mallik E, Linz N, Priller J, Spruth E, Altenstein S, Wiltfang J, Zerr I, Bartels C, Maier F, Rostamzadeh A, Duezel E, Glanz W, Incesoy EI, Butryn M, Laske C, Sodenkamp S, Munk MH, Falkenburger B, Osterrath A, Kilimann I, Stark M, Kleineidam L, Heneka MT, Spottke A, Wagner M, Jessen F, Petzold GC, Levin F, Teipel S. Associations between digital speech features of automated cognitive tasks and trajectories of brain atrophy and cognitive decline in early Alzheimer's disease. J Alzheimers Dis. 2025 Sep; 107(1):154-169.

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Kraus C, Wang J, Zheng H, Broderick J, Ajaykumar N, Zamani M, Yang M, Cecchini K, Liang SQ, Kolumba O, Chase K, Lee J, Xue W, Sontheimer EJ, Gainetdinov I. Absolute quantification of mammalian microRNAs for therapeutic RNA cleavage and detargeting. RNA. 2025 Jul 16; 31(8):1081-1090.

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Zhao Y, Luquette LJ, Veit AD, Wang X, Xi R, Viswanadham VV, Zhang Y, Shao DD, Walsh CA, Yang HW, Johnson MD, Park PJ. High-resolution detection of copy number alterations in single cells with HiScanner. Nat Commun. 2025 Jul 01; 16(1):5477.

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Louis V, Emery P. Biological rhythms: In the sea, two clocks are better than one. Curr Biol. 2025 Jun 23; 35(12):R620-R623.

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Posis AIB, Elman JA, Alcaraz JE, Parada H, Shadyab AH, Fennema-Notestine C, Hagler DJ, Lyons MJ, Panizzon MS, Reynolds CA, Franz CE, Kremen WS, McEvoy LK. Associations of history of traumatic brain injury with markers of brain health among older men in the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging. Neuroimage Clin. 2025; 47:103831.

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