Chapter 12: Nervous System

Question 1

What is the function of the cerebellum?

Answer 1

It monitors, plans and coordinates movement

Question 2

What does the corpus callosum do?

Answer 2

It allows communication between left and right cerebral hemispheres

Question 3

What happens if the corpus callosum is cut?

Answer 3

The two hemispheres of the brain can no longer communicate with each other . Each operates and learns independently without input from the other side

Question 4

What are the parts of the diencephalon?

Answer 4

The hypothalamus, thalamus, epithalamus and subthalamus

Question 5

What is the white matter in the cerebellumis called?

Answer 5

Arbor vitae

Question 6

What part of the brain stem is responsible for the startle reflex?

Answer 6

Midbrain

Question 7

What is the link between the nervous and the endocrine system?

Answer 7

Hypothalamus

Question 8

What is cognition?

Answer 8

Thinking

Question 9

What is the CNS used for?

Answer 9

Detection of stimuli

Question 10

What system is involved in detection of stimuli?

Answer 10

Central nervous system

Question 11

What part of the motor pathway stops inappropriate movements?

Answer 11

Basal nuclei

Question 12

What part of brain stem blends with the spinal cord as it passes the foramen magnum?

Answer 12

Medulla oblangata

Question 13

What is a ventricle?

Answer 13

Internal cavity filled with cerebrospinal fluid

Question 14

What does the cerebellum communicate with to tell the brain what to do?

Answer 14

Cerebrum

Question 15

How much of the brain does the cerebrum take up?

Answer 15

80%

Question 16

How many lobes in the cerebrum?

Answer 16

5

Question 17

What fissure separates the right and left lobe?

Answer 17

Longitudinal

Question 18

Difference between sulci and gyri?

Answer 18

Sucli are indentations (grooves) and gyri are ridges (bumps)

Question 19

What increases the surface area of the brain?

Answer 19

Fissures

Question 20

What are the 5 lobes of the cerebrum?

Answer 20

Frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal, and insula

Question 21

What lobe has neurons for planning?

Answer 21

Parietal

Question 22

Where is vision (lobe]?

Answer 22

Occipital

Question 23

What lobe is by the ears that is involved in language, memory and emotions?

Answer 23

Temporal

Question 24

Where is the insula?

Answer 24

All the way inside

Question 25

What area in the cerebrum is involved in speaking?

Answer 25

Broca’s area in the frontal lobe

Question 26

What area in the cerebrum is involved in understanding speech and language?

Answer 26

The Wernicke’s area in the temporal and parietal lobe

Question 27

What is the limbic known as?

Answer 27

Amygdala

Question 28

What is the basal nuclei involved in?

Answer 28

Movement

Question 29

Where is the limbic system only found?

Answer 29

In mammals

Question 30

What is the cerebral limbic used for?

Answer 30

Memory, learning, emotion and behavior

Question 31

What is the hippocampus used for?

Answer 31

Remembering things

Question 32

What modulates how you react to things?

Answer 32

Cerebral limbic system

Question 33

What is the parahippocampal gyrus for?

Answer 33

Emotion and behavior

Question 34

What gland is in charge of the sleep wake cycle?

Answer 34

Pineal gland

Question 35

What does the diencephalon not include?

Answer 35

Medulla oblangata

Question 36

What does the subthalamus connect to, helping with movement?

Answer 36

Basal nuclei

Question 37

What part of the diencephalon tells the pituitary gland to release hormones?

Answer 37

Hypothalamus

Question 38

What is known as the mommy of the endocrine system?

Answer 38

Hypothalamus

Question 39

What connects the 2 hemispheres of the cerebellum?

Answer 39

Vermis

Question 40

What controls how fast breathing and heart rate is?

Answer 40

Pons

Question 41

What tells out lungs and heart to work and goes directly into the spinal cord, and blends with it after passing through the foramen magnum?

Answer 41

Medulla oblangata

Question 42

How many hours of sleep do adults and infants need?

Answer 42

Adults - 7 to 8 Infants - 17

Question 43

What does the EEG measure?

Answer 43

Electrical activity of the brain using electrodes

Question 44

What is aphasia?

Answer 44

Language deficit when you’re unable to speak

Question 45

What is the glial cell that allows things to go through the blood brain barrier?

Answer 45

Astrocytes

Question 46

What part of the spinal cord is involved in detection of stimuli for the PNS?

Answer 46

Posterior root

Question 47

What produces voluntary movements and inhibits involuntary and inappropriate movements?

Answer 47

Basal nuclei