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Interactive Brain Anatomy Game

Explore the brain in 3D, learn the functions of neuroanatomical structures, test your knowledge, and explore brain blood supply through interactive learning modes.

The game loads inside this panel only — it is not loaded anywhere else on the site. On a touch screen, drag inside the panel to rotate the brain and scroll the page by dragging outside it.

About This Tool

This is an educational neuroanatomy learning resource built into DrND's Knowledge Hub™. It gives you a segmented 3D brain you can rotate and take apart layer by layer, with the name, function, arterial supply and typical stroke deficit of each structure — and quiz modes to help the names stick. It runs entirely in your browser: no account, no sign-up.

Learning Modes

Study

Rotate the brain and click any structure to read its name and function. Peel it apart in layers, isolate one hemisphere for the medial view, and switch on Blood Supply to shade every region by its feeding artery.

Identify

A structure lights up in gold — choose its name from four options. Pick the major structures or all of them, and play 10 questions, a timed round, or endless.

Locate

The game names a structure and you click it on the brain. The hemisphere and layer controls help you reach the deeper structures.

Stroke

An artery is silently occluded and its territory turns grey. Spot the infarcted area and name the culprit vessel — ACA, MCA, PCA, vertebrobasilar or the deep perforators.

How to Use

Choose a mode with the buttons at the top right: Study, Identify, Locate or Stroke.
Drag to rotate the brain; scroll or pinch to zoom.
In Study mode, click or tap a structure to see its name, function, arterial supply and what happens if that artery is blocked.
Use the Hemisphere buttons (Both / Left / Right) for a medial view, and the Layers buttons to hide or show the cortex and deeper structures.
Turn on Blood Supply, then tap an artery (ACA, MCA, PCA, VB, PERF) to occlude it and watch its territory infarct — or try Global hypoperfusion to see the watershed zones.
In Identify, Locate and Stroke, choose your setup and press Start. Your best score is saved in your own browser only.
The [⟳] button toggles auto-rotation, the [♪] button toggles sound, and [i] Credits shows the model credits inside the game.

Credits & Attribution

3D brain model

BodyParts3D, © The Database Center for Life Science licensed under CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.1 Japan

The model is derived from BodyParts3D (origin license page: dbarchive.biosciencedbc.jp). It is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.1 Japan (CC BY-SA 2.1 JP).

Modifications: the meshes were first optimised from the origin data in zlatnaspirala/anatomy-system, which credits them as follows:

They were then re-meshed, merged, renamed and assembled into a single GLB file by the Brain Anatomy Game author.

Share-alike: this derivative model is shared under the same license. It is hosted here unmodified — brain.glb, NOTICE.md — and is not covered by this website's copyright notice or by the application's MIT license.

Licensing note: the BodyParts3D database page currently states Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (last updated 2025/02/27). This tool follows the CC BY-SA 2.1 JP terms declared by the model's upstream repositories.

Brain Anatomy Game (application)

Brain Anatomy Game by Pyae Sone Myo — source: github.com/Rickaym/brain-game. Application code © 2026 Pyae Sone Myo, released under the MIT License; licenses of the open-source libraries it is built with are listed in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt.

The game is hosted here as a separate application and is not original software of DrND's Knowledge Hub™. Changes made to the upstream code for hosting on this site: its files are loaded from this site's /tools/brain-anatomy/game/ folder (base-path adjustment), and the model is loaded without the optional Draco/Meshopt decoders, which this model does not use, so it runs under this site's Content-Security-Policy. The application's features and educational content are unchanged.

Educational resource only. This tool is intended for learning and revision and is not a substitute for professional medical advice or clinical diagnosis.