"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.
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
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211
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| Concept/Terms |
Brain- Brain
- Brains
- Encephalon
- Encephalons
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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.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 22 | 12 | 34 |
| 1997 | 18 | 13 | 31 |
| 1998 | 23 | 14 | 37 |
| 1999 | 18 | 11 | 29 |
| 2000 | 17 | 20 | 37 |
| 2001 | 27 | 11 | 38 |
| 2002 | 19 | 15 | 34 |
| 2003 | 22 | 23 | 45 |
| 2004 | 34 | 23 | 57 |
| 2005 | 27 | 27 | 54 |
| 2006 | 42 | 19 | 61 |
| 2007 | 33 | 24 | 57 |
| 2008 | 32 | 17 | 49 |
| 2009 | 29 | 21 | 50 |
| 2010 | 53 | 32 | 85 |
| 2011 | 30 | 31 | 61 |
| 2012 | 36 | 21 | 57 |
| 2013 | 50 | 22 | 72 |
| 2014 | 45 | 25 | 70 |
| 2015 | 42 | 24 | 66 |
| 2016 | 54 | 19 | 73 |
| 2017 | 53 | 30 | 83 |
| 2018 | 61 | 28 | 89 |
| 2019 | 43 | 30 | 73 |
| 2020 | 42 | 43 | 85 |
| 2021 | 36 | 42 | 78 |
| 2022 | 13 | 48 | 61 |
| 2023 | 14 | 57 | 71 |
| 2024 | 22 | 42 | 64 |
| 2025 | 28 | 14 | 42 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Brain" by people in Profiles.
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Brain Age Disparities in Psychosis Across DSM Diagnoses and B-SNIP Biotypes. Schizophr Bull. 2026 Jan 16; 52(1).
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What makes the human brain special: from cellular function to clinical translation. J Neurophysiol. 2025 Oct 01; 134(4):1197-1213.
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Neural evidence for modality-independent storage in working memory. Curr Biol. 2025 Oct 06; 35(19):4620-4630.e4.
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Feature-driven whole-tissue imaging with subcellular resolution. Cell Rep Methods. 2025 Sep 15; 5(9):101148.
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Early-life gut microbiome maturity regulates blood-brain barrier and cognitive development. Gut Microbes. 2025 Dec; 17(1):2551879.
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Brain Atrophy Does Not Predict Clinical Progression in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Mov Disord. 2025 Nov; 40(11):2517-2530.
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Connectome-based encoding of subjective drug responses to acute oral methamphetamine. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2025 Nov; 50(12):1787-1794.
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The BAsic NeuroCognitive Continuum (BANCC): Delineation of dimensional and categorical features for etiological and treatment investigations of idiopathic psychosis. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2025 Nov; 79(11):747-756.
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Oxygen-induced stress reveals context-specific gene regulatory effects in human brain organoids. Genome Res. 2025 Aug 01; 35(8):1689-1700.
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Morphometric brain MRI findings in hair-pulling and skin-picking disorders in youth. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging. 2025 Sep; 352:112031.