Overview of Early Embryology

Embryology encompasses a wide ranging set of process planned to perfection to produce a working, disease-free human being and these are all interacting and far from separate from each other. Therefore when looking at how the early brain forms, one must also be aware of how other processes evolve especially from the very beginning and so this website has given you a brief overview of the processes involved in early embryology as a whole. In addition to this, it is important to recognise that the study and investigation of neural development is highly dependent upon the use of model organisms where development is highly conserved. Included in this overview is a section entitled Animal Models that explains a few of the features of model organisms and why they are used. Finally the first steps of neural induction are addressed which brings you up to how the very first cells are chosen to be neural in their fate.