Cerebral Cortex

Question 1

where is the cerbral cortex hidden?

Answer 1

more than 1/2 is hidden in the sulcus

Question 2

how thick is the cerebral cortex?

Answer 2

2-4 mm

Question 3

what is the structure of the laminar?

Answer 3

3-6 layers anatomic organization

Question 4

what is the structure of columnar?

Answer 4

modules of cortex

Question 5

what is the function of pyrmidal cell?

Answer 5

excite

Question 6

what is the function of spiny stellate cell?

Answer 6

excite

Question 7

what is the function of smooth stellate?

Answer 7

inhibit

Question 8

what is the function of bipolar?

Answer 8

excie or inhibit

Question 9

what is the structure of the cerbral cortex?

Answer 9

laminar organization

Question 10

what type of cells make up the outer granule and pyramidal layer?

Answer 10

small cells and pyramidal cells

Question 11

what type of cell makes up the inner granuale layer?

Answer 11

stellate cells

Question 12

what type of cells make up inner pyramdial layer?

Answer 12

pyramid cells

Question 13

what type of cells make up the inner most layer of cerebral cortex?

Answer 13

fusiform and bipolar

Question 14

what is the direction of projection fibers?

Answer 14

leaves the cortex

Question 15

what is an example of projection fiber?

Answer 15

corticospinal

Question 16

what are association fiber?

Answer 16

joins one part of the cortex to another within the same region

Question 17

what is a short fiber?

Answer 17

one gyrus to another gyrus within the same lobe

Question 18

what is a long fiber?

Answer 18

travels from one lobe to another lob

ex. superior longitudinal faciculus
goes to frontal lobe to temporal lobe

Question 19

what are commissural fibers?

Answer 19

go from one hemisphere to another

Question 20

what is an example of commissural fiber?

Answer 20

corpus callosum
anterior commisure
posterior commisure
habenular commisure

Question 21

what is a commissural fiber?

Answer 21

afferent

Question 22

what are other examples of afferent fibers?

Answer 22

thalamocortical

neuraxial

Question 23

what are examples of effernt fibers?

Answer 23

commissural

association

projection

Question 24

what are somatic sensory cortex?

Answer 24

1,2, and 3

precentral gyrus

Question 25

what are supplemental sensory areas areas?

Answer 25

5 next to 1,2,3

Question 26

what are visual sensory areas?

Answer 26

17, 18, & 19 lies on either side of the calcarine sulcus

Question 27

what are audory sensory areas?

Answer 27

41,42, & 22 located lateral temporal gyrus

Question 28

what are primary motor areas?

Answer 28

4 located in the precentral gyrus

Question 29

what are premotor areas?

Answer 29

6

Question 30

what are supplemental motor area?

Answer 30

6

Question 31

what are brocas area?

Answer 31

44, 45 deals with speech and problem solving

Question 32

what are wernicke's area?

Answer 32

22 conceptualizes what is heard

Question 33

what area is angular gyrus?

Answer 33

39 deals with written

Question 34

what is the left brain responsible for?

Answer 34

analytical information

Question 35

what is the right brain responsible for?

Answer 35

holistic, spiritual, artistic