PMSE Brain (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

PMSE Brain

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A PMSE brain exhibits abnormal brain architecture. On the left is a region of the cerebral cortex obtained post-mortem from a PMSE patient. The inset depicts neurons trapped in the white matter that have failed to move into the cortex during brain development. On the right are three examples of abnormally large neurons in the cerebral cortex in PMSE.

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Peter B. Crino, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

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