Brain Regions

Question 1

Frontal lobe

Answer 1

Personality, motor activity, executive impulse control

Question 2

Pre-central gurus

Answer 2

Primary motor cortex

Question 3

Parietal lobe

Answer 3

Perception of senses, math, language

Question 4

Post-central gurus

Answer 4

Primary somatosensory cortex

Question 5

Temporal lobe

Answer 5

Memory, emotion, hearing, language

Question 6

Occipital lobe

Answer 6

Vision

Question 7

Cerebellum

Answer 7

Coordination of motor activity

Question 8

Thalamus

Answer 8

Switchboard of brain

Question 9

Hypothalamus

Answer 9

Drives: sexual, thermoregulatory, and appetite

Question 10

Pineal gland

Answer 10

Day to night and seasonal change

Question 11

Corpus callosum

Answer 11

Sharing info between right and left lobes

Question 12

Cingulate gyrus & fornix

Answer 12

Emotion and memory

Question 13

Central sulcus

Answer 13

Separates frontal and parietal lobes

Question 14

Lateral sulcus

Answer 14

Separates frontal and parietal from temporal

Question 15

Parieto-occipital sulcus

Answer 15

Separates parietal and occipital lobes

Question 16

Calcarine sulcus

Answer 16

Separates upper and lower aspects of occipital

Question 17

Spinal cord

Answer 17

Motor and sensory cells and tracts to and from the body

Question 18

Medulla

Answer 18

Contains cardio respiratory center, pain sensation in head, facial movement, swallowing (essential to function)

Question 19

Pons

Answer 19

Relay between cortex and cerebellum, muscles of mastication, fine tough of face

Question 20

Cerebellum

Answer 20

Coordination of ongoing motor activity

Question 21

Midbrain

Answer 21

Assists with motor planning, jaw proprioception

Question 22

Anterior cranial fossa contains:

Answer 22

Frontal lobes

Question 23

Middle cranial fossa contains:

Answer 23

Temporal lobes
Optic nerve (CN II)
Pituitary gland
Hypothalamus

Question 24

Posterior Cranial Fossa

Answer 24

Pons
Medulla
Cerebellum

Question 25

The three meningeal layers from superficial to deep are:

Answer 25

Dura matter (receives most of its blood supply from the middle meningeal artery) Arachnoid matter Pia matter

Question 26

Falx Cerebri

Answer 26

Separates the right & left lobes of the cortex

Question 27

Tentorium cerebelli

Answer 27

Separates the occipital and temporal lobes from the cerebellum

Question 28

Answer 28

Question 29

Choroid Plexus

Answer 29

Makes CSF

Question 30

Contusions are

Answer 30

Bruises of the brain caused by forceful contact between the brain and the skull itself

Question 31

Concussions are

Answer 31

Bruises of the brain caused by forceful contact between the brain and the skull but involves loss of consciousness

Question 32

Fine touch receptors

Answer 32

Meissen corpuscles, Markell cells, Ruffini

Question 33

Pressure receptors

Answer 33

Pacinian corpuscles

Question 34

Pain and temperature receptors

Answer 34

Free nerve endings

Question 35

DCML

Answer 35

Dorsal Column-Medial Lemniscal System- receives fine touch and vibration sensations from skin as well as proprioceptive input from muscles spindle fibers and golgi tendon organs

Question 36

Lower limb inputs

Answer 36

Fasiculus gracilis - think “ Graceful legs”

Question 37

Fascicles cuneatus

Answer 37

Think UE- cute arms

Question 38

ALS -

Answer 38

Anterolateral system/ Spinothalamic tract - Receives pain temperature and crude touch sensations from skin

Question 39

DCML: Lesions ABOVE the Decussation causes _________signs.

Answer 39

CONTRALATERAL

Question 40

DCML: Lesions BELOW the Decussation causes ______________ signs.

Answer 40

IPSILATERAL

Question 41

ALS: Because axons that enter this pathway Decussation continuously after they reach the spinal cord, any lesion to this tract will have _______________signs below the site of the lesion.

Answer 41

CONTRALATERAL

Question 42

Muscle spindle fibers getting stretched then they must increase the tone ( in stretched agonist) to bring it back to normal-

Answer 42

Decrease tone in the antagonists

Question 43

Golgi tendon is only active after deep stretch

Answer 43

(Decreases tone in the agonist and) increases tone in the antagonists