Guided Journey of Nervous Histology

How to use this page

This is a reading-and-looking guide, not a how-to-run-the-microscope guide. Each stop walks you through what a structure is, what it does, and how to recognize it in a real section A cut or slice of the body or an organ for study. — so that when you meet the specimen in lab (or on the practical), it already looks familiar.

• Read a short section on each specimen, with a Find this first tip and a Common trap for each.
• Explore the labeled pictures. Wherever you see a numbered dot on an image, click it to reveal what that structure is and why it matters. The definitions live right on the histology.
• Check yourself with a few quick questions and the activities embedded in the course page.