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What part of the neural tube forms the brain

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Rostal part of the neural tube

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What part of the neural tube forms the spinal cord?

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Caudal part

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What become the Forebrain?

What does this develop into?

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Prosencephalon becomes the forebrain

It develops into the Telencephalon and Diencephalon @ 7 weeks

which go onto form the 2 cerebral hemispheres

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what becomes the midbrain?

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Mesencephalon

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what becomes the hindbrain?

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Rhombencephalon

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What are the 4 lobes of the Cerebral cortex?

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  • Frontal
  • Parietal
  • Occipital
  • Temporal
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What can happen at the poles?

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Contusion a.k.a bruising

on frontal, temporal, occipital lobes

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which lobe does not have a pole?

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Parietal

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What are the parts of the Forebrain?

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  • Cerebral hemisphere
  • Olfactory bulb
  • Diencephalon
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what are the parts of the Cerebral Hemisphere?

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  • Cerebral cortex
  • Basal Ganglia
  • Various small nuclei
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What are the parts of the Diencephalon

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  • Thalamus
  • Subthalamus
  • Hypothalamus
  • Epithalamuc (a.k.a Pineal gland)
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Is brain shrinkage a normal process?

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Yes with ageing it is

  • @ 70 - 5% lost
  • @80 - 10% lost
  • @90 - 20% lost
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Cortex

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Outer layer of gray matter - 1-4mm thickness

Controls all of cognition

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What is the gateway to the Cortex?

What doesn’t go through here?

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The Thalamus

Only Olfaction (sense of smell) doesn’t go through here, it goes direct to the cortex

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Result of Cortical Damage to

Primary Somatosensory Cortex:

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  • somatosensory anaesthesia (loss of touch).
  • Pain remains intact (= parieto-insular supplementary area)
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Result of cortical damage to

Supplementary somatosensory areas

Superior Parietal Lobe:

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  • contralateral somatosensory agnosia
  • (inability to recognise common objects by palpation alone: = touch and proprioception)
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Result of cortical damage to

Supplementary somatosensory areas

Inferior Parietal Lobule:

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in the dominant hemisphere

  • (Left) concerned especially with language (alexia).

Damage of non-dominant hemisphere

  • = bizarre disturbances of “body image”
  • known as somatosensory disregard:
  • eg patients ignore parts of their body, believing they belong to someone else (contralateral to lesion) in spite of the fact that the body part is not anaesthetic to any stimulus
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What is critical for memory?

where does this sit?

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Hippocampus

Sits in the temporal lobe

This degenerates in Alzheimer’s pts

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Homunculus

Degree of innervation is proportional to the organ size representation

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larger the innervation the larger the organ size on the homunculus

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Cortical Connections

Ascending Connections:

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Somatosensory from the thalamus:

  • (inputs from spinal cord via VPL, and trigeminal via VPM)

Auditory:

  • from the thalamus (inputs from the cochlea via the medial geniculate nucleus)

Visual:

  • from the thalamus (inputs from the retina via the lateral geniculate nucleus)

Smell

  • (direct into the olfactory cortex) and Taste (via VPM)

Complex information from the cerebellum and basal ganglia via the thalamus

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Corical connections

Descending Connections

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  • Motor to the spinal cord (corticospinal tract)
  • Motor to the brainstem motor nuclei (cortico-bulbar tract)
  • To the motor control centres (targeted to the basal ganglia and cerebellum)
  • To the limbic system
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Cortical connections

Connections within the cerebral cortex

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On same side:

  • association fibres connecting different brain regions

On opposite sides:

  • commissures including the corpus callosum
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Where does the visual cortex lie?

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In the OCCIPITAL LOBE

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Primary sensory and motor areas on the medial surface

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What sulcus lies on the Medial surface?
Calcarine sulcus
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what does 1) a lesion in primary cortex/retina 2) damage in secondary area cause?
Lesion in primary cortex/retina = blindness damage in secondary area = visaul defects NOT blindness
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What are the two main streams in higher-order visual processing?
* Dorsal pathway * Ventral Pathway
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Ventral pathway
the WHAT bit * analysis of form & colour Damage to this area leads to: * difficulty seeing colours * reading newspapers (due to different font sizes)
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Dorsal Pathway
the WHERE * analysis of motion and spatial relations Damage to this area leads to: * trouble identifying moving objects * BUT can identify them when stationary
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Facial recognition centre
Damage to this can lead to one not being able to recognise faces which can be very devastating to friends and family etc Propagnosia = face blindness
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Effects of Lesions Retina and primary visual cortex? Supplementary areas?
**Retina and primary visual cortex:** * Blindness **Supplementary areas:** * *Visual agnosia* - inability to recognise everyday objects * *Visual disregard* - lesion of non-dominant inferior parietal lobule contralateral hemifield can be seen but is ignored by patient (cf. somatosensory disregard) **Facial recognition** - left & right hemisphere
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***_Visual neglect_***
Damage on the non-dominant hemisphere * neglect on one side of the field, usually the left
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Neuroanatomy of Language 1
1. **Sounds processed in mid brain**. *Spoken language sent to Wernicke’s area in left hemisphere*. 2. **Written language processed in visual area**; *sent to angular gyrus in left hemisphere. Changed to sound; sent to Wernicke’s.* 3. *Wernicke’s area extracts meaning from language from any source.* Thoughts encoded into crude linguistic outline then sent to Broca’s area in left hemisphere where refined into grammatical form. 4. **Broca’s then signals to motor cortex to make speech.** 5. Blood flow studies confirm anatomical conclusions from studies of Stroke and brain damage. 6. Low frequencies sent to Wernicke’s. High frequencies giving emotional information go to right hemisphere.
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Damage right hemisphere
loss of ability to interpret emotional content.
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Damage Broca’s area
know what to say but can’t do it with grammar
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Damage Wernicke’s area
perfect grammar but meaningless. Same effects seen with sign language.
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Commissural fibres
connect the hemispheres/cross over from one side to the other ## Footnote **Corpus callosum:** connects hemispheres. “Split brain” produces 2 halves. Visual information to Right non-dominant hemisphere gets no verbal response. So can’t name objects or read words presented in left visual field. **Tumour of splenium produces alexia without agraphia** - speak and write but cannot read - separation visual processing in right hemisphere from language in left dominant (e.g. of a disconnection syndrome).
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***_Association fibres_*** superior longitudanal fasciculus inf long fascic arcuate fascic
**Superior longitudanal fasciculus:** connects frontal and occipital (arcuate frontal to temporal) **Inf. long. fascic**: occip to temp for visual recognition **Arcuate fasciculus:** Wernicke’s area to Broca’s area
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What can a tumour on the corpus callosum prevent?
Can prevent information transfer from one side to another
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***_Cortical lesions_*** * Focal cerebral lesions * Bilateral cortical degeneration * left parietal * right parietal * left temporal * occipital * single * bilateral
_Focal cerebral lesions:_ * epilepsy; sensory and/or motor deficits; & psychological deficits. Left frontal lobe lesion produces “Jacksonian seizures”, contralateral hemiplegia, aphasia (alexia & agraphia) _Bilateral cortical degeneration:_ * Alzheimer’s degeneration of temporal, parietal, & limbic. Loss of language and memory. _Left parietal:_ * anomia, acalculia, as well as alexia and agraphia. _Right parietal:_ * constructional apraxia (skilled movements) _Left temporal:_ * absences, automatisms, déjà vu, Wernicke’s aphasia. _Occipital:_ * single - simple visual hallucinations, contralateral field loss * bilateral - blindness - complex

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