This view shows how the spinal nerves attach to the spinal cord, and how the spinal meninges are organized. As the nerve passes into the vertebral notch (not shown) it splits into two roots. The dorsal root carries sensory axons whose cell bodies lie in the dorsal root ganglia. The ventral root carries motor axons arising from the gray matter of the ventral spinal cord. The butterfly-shaped core of the spinal cord is gray matter consisting of neuronal cell bodies. The gray matter is divided into dorsal, lateral, and ventral horns. The organization of the gray and white matter in the spinal cord differs from that in the forebrain. In the forebrain, the gray matter surrounds the white matter; in the spinal cord it is the other way around. The thick shell of white matter, containing the long axons that run up and down the cord, is divided into three columns: the dorsal columns, the lateral columns, and the ventral columns.

1. Spinal dura mater

2. Spinal arachnoid

3. Subarachnoid space

4. Spinal pia mater

5. Ventral column

6. Ventral horn

7. Lateral column

8. Dorsal horn

9. Dorsal columns

10. Spinal canal

11. Lateral horn

12. Dorsal root filaments

13. Dorsal root

14. Dorsal root ganglion

15. Spinal nerve

16. Ventral root

17. Ventral root filaments

A personal request from Barry Thain, Clinical Hypnotist

This is the brochure site for my hypnotherapy practice. I put these pages here because I think hypnosis is all in the brain and, indeed, most of my work involves intervening in the supply of corticotropin releasing hormone from the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis. 

Despite being a hypnotherapy site, these neuro-graphics pages get thousands of visits every month. (I've discovered they are used in Wikipedia so that explains a lot of it.) I hope this page has been useful to you, because it isn't of any use to me; unless ...

I have a hypnosis mp3 site. You would do me a great favour if you visited the site briefly because Google would notice and my site would become easier to find for those who want to download therapy. There's no trap, and you don't have to buy anything. There is a free (and popular, and effective) therapy called Appreciate Yourself that you are welcome to grab if you want to, but really I'd just appreciate the visit.

I'm afraid you'll find this request on all these pages, but you don't have to follow the link every time you see it. Once will be great!

Thanks in advance.

Barry

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