Brain Explorer

Interactive 3D brain with 12 fully illustrated regions — anatomy, videos, atlas links from Allen Brain Atlas, BrainFacts, Neuroscience Online, and more.

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Brain Regions

2 videos · 5 sources

2 videos · 5 sources

2 videos · 5 sources

2 videos · 5 sources

2 videos · 5 sources

2 videos · 5 sources

2 videos · 5 sources

2 videos · 5 sources

2 videos · 5 sources

2 videos · 5 sources

2 videos · 5 sources

2 videos · 5 sources

Frontal Lobe

2-Minute Neuroscience: Prefrontal Cortex

The brain's executive command center — planning, personality, motor control, and speech production.

Parietal Lobe

2-Minute Neuroscience: Parietal Lobe

Integrates sensory information, spatial awareness, and mathematical reasoning.

Temporal Lobe

2-Minute Neuroscience: Temporal Lobe

Auditory processing, language comprehension, and memory formation.

Occipital Lobe

2-Minute Neuroscience: Occipital Lobe

Primary visual processing from V1 through specialized visual areas.

Cerebellum

2-Minute Neuroscience: Cerebellum

Motor coordination, balance, and increasingly recognized cognitive roles.

Brain Stem

2-Minute Neuroscience: Brainstem

Life-sustaining autonomic functions and consciousness arousal.

Limbic System

2-Minute Neuroscience: Amygdala

The emotional core — motivation, memory, and behavior.

Hippocampus

2-Minute Neuroscience: Hippocampus

The brain's memory formation and spatial navigation center.

Amygdala

2-Minute Neuroscience: Amygdala

Fear processing, emotional memory, and threat detection.

Thalamus

2-Minute Neuroscience: Thalamus

The brain's sensory relay station and consciousness gateway.

Hypothalamus

Hypothalamus Overview

Master regulator of homeostasis, hormones, and circadian rhythms.

Basal Ganglia

2-Minute Neuroscience: Basal Ganglia

Motor control, habit formation, and reward processing.