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Anatomy Of The Nervous System Flashcards

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What sections does the corpus callousum connect?

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Communication between parts of the brain near right and left temples

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What is the function of the massa intermedia? What is it?

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Cerebral commissure that connects L R lobes of diencephalon

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What are cerebral commissures?

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Large tracts that span the longitudinal fissure

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What are the six primary cortexes?

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Motor, somatosensory, gustatory (taste), auditory, visual, olfactory

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Where does the primary somatosensory cortex receive input?

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From the ventral posterior nucleus and from other thalamic nuclei carrying somatosensory information

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Where is the primary somatosensory cortex located?

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Post central gyrus

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Where does output from the primary somatosensory cortex go?

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To the secondary somatosensory cortex

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What is the somatosensory homunculus?

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Cortical map that has regions of the face depicting the amount of inputs

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Where is the secondary somatosensory cortex located?

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Inferior to the primary in post central gyrus

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Where does output from the secondary somatosensory cortex go?

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To the posterior parietal association cortex

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What is the meninges composed of?

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Connective tissue layer covering all of the nervous system. Dura mater, arachnoid mater, pia mater

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What is the function of the meninges?

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Protect, give structure, contain cerebrospinal fluid

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What are the layers of the brain?

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Skull, dura mater, arachnoid space, subarachnoid space with arachnoid trabeculae, pia mater, brain

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What is the function of the subarachnoid space?

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To contain CSF and suspend the brain in place

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What is the function of the pia mater?

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Secretion and containment of CSF

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What is the function of the frontal lobe?

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Voluntary movement, expressive language, manage higher level of executive function (plan organize, initiative, self monitor, control responses to achieve goal)

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What is the function of the parietal lobe?

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Processing, interpreting,somatosensory input, inform about objects in external environment, proprioception (position movement of body parts), integrates sensory input into a coordinate system to represent the world

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What is the function of the temporal lobe?

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Processes auditory information and encoding memory process affect emotion, language and aspects of visual perception

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Is there a dominant temporal lobe?

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Yes, usually the left but dependent on the amount of connections made and experience

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What is the function of the occipital lobe?

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Visual perception (color, form, motion)

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What is the function of the olfactory nerve? Is it sensory or motor? Where does it exit the brain?

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-control smell, transmit olfactory stimuli from nose to brain
-sensory
-cerebrum

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What is the function of the optic nerve? Is it sensory or motor? Where does it exit the brain?

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-sight. Eye to brain connection
-sensory
-cerebrum

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What is the function of the oculomotor nerve? Is it sensory or motor? Where does it exit the brain?

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-adjust eye position/movement, pupil size
-motor
-midbrain

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What is the function of the trochlear nerve? Is it sensory or motor? Where does it exit the brain?

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-coordinate eye super oblique muscle, eye movement and rotate
-motor
-midbrain

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What is the function of the trigeminal nerve? Is it sensory or motor? Where does it exit the brain?

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-sensory face innervation (temp, touch, pain), chewing
-motor/sensory
-pons

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What is the function of the abducens nerve? Is it sensory or motor? Where does it exit the brain?

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-eye muscle, lateral rectus
-motor
-pons

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What is the function of the facial nerve? Is it sensory or motor? Where does it exit the brain?

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-facial expression muscle, salvation glands, taste inform from tongue, tear glands
-sensory and motor
-pons

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What is the function of the vestibularcochlear nerve? Is it sensory or motor? Where does it exit the brain?

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-hearing/balance, orientation in space
-sensory
-pons

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What is the function of the glossopharngeal nerve? Is it sensory or motor? Where does it exit the brain?

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-raise throat for swallowing, taste, monitor BP
-sensory and motor
-medulla

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What is the function of the vagus nerve? Is it sensory or motor? Where does it exit the brain?

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-conduct signals to/from gut organs, swallowing, autonomic nervous system in response to stress
-sensory and motor
-medulla

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What is the function of the accessory nerve? Is it sensory or motor? Where does it exit the brain?

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-neck rotation, shoulder/head movement
-motor
-medulla

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What is the function of the hypoglossal nerve? Is it sensory or motor? Where does it exit the brain?

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-innervates intrinsic/extrinsic tongue, swallowing, speech, tongue muscles
-motor
-medulla

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What composes the cerebral cortex? Function?

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Grey matter covering 6 layers. Composed of cell bodies. Functions in processing and cognition. White mater with axons for tracts and brain communication

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What is the neocortex? What is it composed of?

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Composes 90% of the cortex. Part of the outer layer. Composed of pyramidal cells and stellate cells

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What are the two types of stellate cells?

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Smooth-inhibitory
Spiny-excitatory

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What is present in the first layer of the neocortex? Molecular level

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Few scattered cell bodies, dendrites, glial cells, spiny stellate. Inputs crucial for feedback interactions in cortex for attention and associative learning

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What is present in the external granular layer (2) of the neocortex?

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Dense stellate and few pyramidal cells

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What is present in the external pyramidal (3) layer of the neocortex?

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Predominately small and medium pyramidal cells. Vertically oriented cortical axons that stay within the cortex. Main target of interhemishperic cortico-cortical aference

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What is present in the internal granular (4) layer of the neocortex?

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Dense, packed stellate cells, some pyramidal. Target of thalomocortical afference and intrahemispheric cortico-cortical afference

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What is present in the internal pyramidal (5) layer of the neocortex?

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Large pyramidal cells that give rise to axons that leave the cortex to subcortical layers. Few, loose stellate cells

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What is present in the multiform (6) layer of the neocortex?

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Multi size pyramidal cells, loose packed stellate. Spindle like multiform neurons. Sends efferent fibers to thalamus establishing reciprocal interconnection between thalamus and cortex

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What is white matter composed of?

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Myelinated pyramidal cell axons, few cell bodies

43
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What two cortex composes the allocortex? What is the function of each of them?

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Paliocortex- 3 layers, olfactory
Archicortex- 3 layers, survival

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