Brain

Question 1

What mid brain structure receives signals from the inner ear and relay them to other parts of the brain

Answer 1

Inferior colliculi

Question 2

What plays a role in visual attention and visual tracking of moving objects

Answer 2

Superior coliculi

Question 3

What structure serves as the major control center of the endocrine and autonomic nervous systems

Answer 3

The hypothalamus

Question 4

The frontal lobe is responsible for

Answer 4

Voluntary motor function
Mood
Memory

Question 5

The parietal lobe

Answer 5

Responsible for recovering and interpreting input from the general senses
And taste / visual processing

Question 6

Occipital lobe

Answer 6

Primary visual center in the brain

Question 7

Temporal lobe deals with

Answer 7

hearing
smell
memory
aspects of vision and emotion

Question 8

Cerebral cortex

Answer 8

Made of grey matter and covers the entirety of the outside brain

Question 9

What does the Insula do

Answer 9

Processes sence of taste and integrates sensory input from visceral receptors

Cardiovascular homeostasis

Question 10

Limbic system controls

Answer 10

Part of the brain involved with emotion and learning

Question 11

What cranial nerves are predominantly motor

Answer 11

3
4
6
11
12

Question 12

Where is grey matter found in the cerebrum

Answer 12

Cerebral cortex
Basal nuclei
Limbic system

Question 13

Fissures

Answer 13

Deep grooves

Question 14

Sulci

Answer 14

Shallow depressions that separate the folds or wrinkles

Question 15

Gyri

Answer 15

Folds or wrinkles that increase surface area

Question 16

White matter

Answer 16

tissue in the brain composed of nerve fibers. The fibers (called axons) connect nerve cells and are covered by myelin

Question 17

Grey matter

Answer 17

enables individuals to control movement, memory, and emotions.
Made of nuronal cell bodys

Question 18

Parts of brainstem

Answer 18

Midbrain
Pons
Medula oblongota

Question 19

What does CSF do

Answer 19

Helps with

Buoyancy

Protection

Chemical stability

Question 20

Hypothalmus helps with

Answer 20

Is the main visceral control center

Maintaining Body temp

Regulating food intake

Autonomic control center

Question 21

The pons is located

Answer 21

Below the midbrain above medulla oblongata

Question 22

The pons

Answer 22

Involved in regulating the functions of cranial nerves 5 to 8

Helps medulla oblongota generate the respiratory rhythm of breathing

Question 23

Pretectal nucli do what

Answer 23

Control pupilary diameter and focusing of the lense

Question 24

What are viceral reflexes

Answer 24

Reflex arch that causes glandular response in internal organs such as blood vessels.

Question 25

Somatic nervous system

Answer 25

Allows for voluntary controle of body movements via skeletal muscle

Question 26

Diencephalon is made of what

Answer 26

The thalmus
Hypothalmus
Epithalmus

Question 27

Where is the deincephalon located

Answer 27

Imidiatly Rostral (infront of) to the brain stem

Question 28

Differance between anterior and posterior root

Answer 28

Posterior root has a ganglion

Question 29

Communicating rami do what

Answer 29

are responsible forconveying autonomic signals, specifically for the sympathetic nervous system.