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Lectures 55-56: Cortex Flashcards

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Ocular dominance columns are divided by…what layer?

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Divided by eye; Layer 4C

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What is the other type of radial column?

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Orientation columns

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Integration of color information occur by…these areas are called?

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Projections superficially and deep to 4C; Colorful blobs

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What are areas of achromatic regions called?

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Interblobs!

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Streams and fasciculi from visual cortex and information carried (2)

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Dorsal stream/superior longitudinal fasciculus (where) and ventral stream/inferior longitudinal fasciculus (what)

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Where pathway answers what question? Where does it project?

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Where an item is located in space; parietal/frontal lobes

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What eye movement is impacted by the dorsal stream?

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Visually-guided control of saccades

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Dominant (L) parietal lobe…

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Mediates attention to contralateral (R) hemi-space

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Non-dominant (R) parietal lobe…

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Mediates attention to bilateral hemi-space

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So, if you damage the non-dominant parietal (R) lobe, you can get…Why?

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(L) Hemi-neglect; because the left hemi-space ONLY FF

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What pathway answers what question? Where does it project?

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Identifies objects; temporal lobe

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Fusiform gyrus does what?

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Recognizes faces

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Visual agnosia

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Inability to visually recognize an object

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Action selection means…what brain region.

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Which behaviors will be expressed and which won’t be, what is the plan?; DL/VLPFC

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Suppression of action brain region

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Orbital frontal cortex

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Action itself brain region. This region has what subdivisions?

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Medial PFC; cognitive and affective subdivions

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What is the cingulum and what does it do?

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Fiber bundle; learns to correct mistakes, reinforces behaviors that reduce pain

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Describe the cingulum pain pathway…

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Pain information is mapped onto cingulate gyrus, transmitted via cingulum to various places (i.e. temporal lobe: hippocmapus)

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Hippocampal formation projects where via what

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Mammillay bodies, septal nuclei, ventral striatum; fornix

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Mammillary bodies project…

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To the thalamus

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The cingulum also sends a projection to this structure to mediate what pain-related emotion?

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Amygdala; fear

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Describe the mesocortical pathway projections and what it is responsible for?

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VTA to DLPFC, VMPFC, cingulate, olfactory bulbs; cognition/motivation/emotional responses pathway

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Layers: Archicortex and example

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3 (hippocampus)

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Layers: Paleocortex

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3-5 (transitional cortex)

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Layers: Neocortex
6 (mammals only)
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Where do we find pyramidal cells in neocortex?
All layers, but mainly 3 and 5
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What are the smaller cells of the neocortex? What layers?
Granular cells; all layers, but mainly 2 and 4
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Name the layers
1 Molecular, 2 outer granular, 3 outer pyramidal, 4 inner granular, 5 inner pyramidal, 6 polymorphic
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Dendritic spines receive what kind of input? Whats an important projection to neocortex via these spine interactions?
Excitatoy (glutamatergic); thalamocortical interactions
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Where is the UMN deficit in ALS? AD?
Large pyramidal cells of Layer V (i.e. motor deficits); Widespread loss of pyramidal cells (cognitive dysfunction)
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Non-pyramidal cells use what NT. What's an associated disease?
GABA; epilepsy
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Homotypical cortex
Equal sized layers of cortex (association)
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Sensory cortex: cell type and other name
Predominance of granular cells; Koniocotex
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Motor cortex: cell type and other name
Predominance of pyramidal cells; Agranular cortex
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Differences in cortical thickness depends on...
Its function! Example: Layer III of Association > Layer III of Occipital (less pyramidal cells)
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If a cortical region has more pyramidal cells it's going to be thicker/less thick
Thicker
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Inputs to neocortex (4)
Neocortex, allocortex, thalamus, other subcortical nuclei (brainstem, etc)
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Intrinsic (cortical) inputs to these layers
I, II, III
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Extrinsic inputs to these layers
III, IV
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As an example, the LGN projects to which layer (broadly)?
IV
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Layer IV projects where...then where...then where...
III; V; outputs to association areas
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What are the short arcuate bundles? Also called?
WM connecting close regions of cortex; U fibers
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Uncinate fasiculus connects
Interconnects anterior frontal lobe (OFC) with anterior temporal lobe (hippocampus, amygdala)
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Superior longitudinal fasiculus connects; what does the arcuate fasiculus connect?
Frontal, partietal, and occipital lobe; Wernicke's and Broca's territory
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Inferior longitudinal fasiculus
Occipital and temporal lobe
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Cingulum is located...
Internally within the cingulate gyrus
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Forceps major interconnects...Function?
Occipital poles; joins visual fields
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Forceps minor interconnects...
Frontal lobes
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Anterior commissure interconnects...
Temporal lobes and amygdala
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What are projections from the ACh and monoamine nuclei like?
They blanket the cortex, not precise like other inputs
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Horizontal: Plexus of Exner connects and layer
Cortex regions to one another; Layer I (cortico-cortico connections tend to be superficial)
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Horizontal: Kaes-Bechterew connects and layer
Mediates inputs from thalamus that are not from specific sensory relay nuclei; Layer III
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Horizontal: Outer stripes of Baillarger
Carries specific thalamic nuclei radiations; Layer IV
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Horizontal: Inner stripes of Baillarger
Carries outputs; Layer V
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Outputs from neocortex (5)
1. Cortex (neo and allo), 2. Thalamic, 3. Basal ganglia, 4. Brainstem structures nuclei, 5. Spinal cord
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Layers III and superficial IV project to...
Cortex
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Layer V projects to...
Non-thalamic, subcortical areas
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Superficial VI projects to...
Thalamic sensory relay nuclei
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Deep VI projects to...
Non-specific thalamic
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Cortex is organized vertically into...scaffolding?
Radial columns; pyramidal cells

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