# Brain Cortex
- Also called Cerebral Cortex
- It has a folded appearance with hills and valleys
- The nerve cell bodies color the cortex grey-brown giving it its name – gray matter
- Beneath the cortex are long nerve fibers (axons) that connect [[Brain Areas]] to each other — called white matter
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- [[Gyrus]]
- [[Basal Ganglia]]
- Divided into parts
- [[Medial Prefrontal Cortex]], and the [[Posterior Cingulate Cortex]] with the nearby [[Precuneus]] and [[Lateral Parietal Cortex]]
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