forebrain - the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tubebrain, encephalon - that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord corpus callosum - a broad transverse nerve tract connecting the two cerebral hemispheres telencephalon - the anterior division of the forebrain; the cerebrum and related parts of the hypothalamus |