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What are gyrus ?

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  • ridges of tissue (anhöhung)
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What are sulcus ?

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  • grooves (rillen) between gyrus
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Name the 4 lobs ?

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  • frontal, parietal, temporal and frontal lobe
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What is the function of the frontal lobe ?

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  • controls important complex cognitive skills

- problem solving and language

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What is the function of the parietal lobe ?

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  • processing sensory information
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What is the function of the temporal lobe ?

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  • Auditory info + sense of smell
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What is the function of the occipital lobe ?

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  • receives and process information from the eye
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What is the function of the sylvian fissure ?

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  • seperates the frontal and parietal lobe from the temporal lobe
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What is the function of the central sulcus ?

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  • seperates the frontal from the parietal lobe

- also seperates the postcentral gyrus from the precentral gyurs

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What is meant by the outer shell of the hemisphere ?

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  • cerebral cortex
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What is the function of the cerebral cortex ?

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  • higher complex brain functions

- attention, perception, awareness, thought, memory, language, and consciousness

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What is the function of the postcentral gyrus ?

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  • mediates the sense of touch

- it contains the primary somatensory cortex

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What is the function of the precentral gyrus ?

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  • good for motor control

- cause it contains the the primary motor cortex

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What is the function of the corpus collosum ?

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  • good for communication between riht and left hemisphere
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What is the structure of the white matter ?

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  • consist of fiber tracts

- myelin

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What is the structure of the grey matter ?

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  • consist of cell bodies and dendrites
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What is meant by a nuclei ?

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  • many neurons in NS

- or center of single cell

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What is meant by a tracts ?

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  • bundlex of axons in the NS
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What is meant by the saggital plane ?

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  • cuts humans brain in right and left half
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What is meant by the coronal plane ?

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  • cuts human in front and back
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What is meant by the horizontal plane

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  • cuts only the brain ( so u have a lower and upper part )
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What does anterior / rostral mean ?

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  • towards the front/nose
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What does posterior / caudal mean ?

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  • towards the back/tail
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What is meant by lateral and medial ?

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  • lateral = towards the side

- medial = towards the mid

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What does ipsilateral mean ?
- same side of the body
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What does contraleteral mean ?
- opposite side of the body
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What is meant by proximal ?
- near by
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What is meant by distal ?
- far away
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What does ventral mean ?
- towards the belly | - toowards the belly
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What does afferent mean ?
- towards the region
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What does efferent mean ?
- away from the region
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Name the development of the brain:
- Young embryo = only a neurol tube - few eeks old embryo= forebrain midbrain hindbrain and spinal cord - 50 days old embryo TDMMM
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What does TDMMM stand for ?
- Telencephalon, Diencephalon, Mesencephalon,Metencephalon and Myelencephalon
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What does the telencephalon consit of ?
- neocortex, basel ganglia and limbic system
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What does Diencephalon consist of ?
- Thalamus, Hypothalamus
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What does the mesencephalon consist of ?
- midbrain, superior colliculi inferior colliculi red nucleus and reticular formation
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What does the Metencephalon consist of ?
- cerbellum and pons
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What does the myelencephalon consist of ?
- medulla
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What does the left hemisphere control ?
- right body
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What does the right hemisphere control ?
- left body
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What is the function of the basel ganglia ?
- important for motor control
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What is the function of the limbic system ?
- good for emotion control and learning
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What is the function of the thalamus ?
- input for sensory information and pass it on to cerebral cortex
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What is the function of the hypothalamus ?
- hunger thirst and temperarture regulation
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What is the function of the superior colliculi ?
- process of visual info
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What is the function of the inferior colliculi ?
- process of soun info
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What is the function of the red nucleus ?
- also controls motor movement
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What is the function of the reticular formation ?
- sleep arousal temperature regulation and motor control
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What is the function of the cerebellum ?
- coordinates voluntary movements such as posture, balance
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What is the function of the medulla ?
- regulates breathing and heart rate
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What is the function of the pons ?
- control of sleep | - reasing CSF
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What is the structure of the cerebal cortex ?
- consist of 3 layers: 1. Parallel fibers 2. Purkinje cell 3. Granule cell
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Name the structure of the ventricular system ?
- 2 lateral ventricle = controls the production of CSF via the choroid plexus - third ventrictle = passing on CSF from lateral to fourth ventricle - fourth ventricle = release of CSF via pons
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What is meant by CSF ?
- cerebrospinal fluid -> protects brain for fast movement and also serves as an exchange for nutritions
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What does dorsal mean mean ?
- towards the top of the head
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What does medial mean ?
- towards the middle
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What does lateral mean ?
- away from the middle
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What does inferior mean ?
- lower or below
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What does superior mean ?
- abover or upper
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What is the function of the longitudinal fissure ?
- split the brain in two halfs
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Which sulcus lies between the precentral and postcentral gyrus ?
- central sulcus
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Which lobes are seperated by the lateral fissure ?
- the frontal from the temporal lobe
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What lies in front of the primary motor cortex ?
- the supplementary motor area and the pre motor area
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What does the occipital lobe contain ?
- Secondory visual cortex and the primary visual cortex
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What is the function of the broca area ?
- used for speech production

Neuroanatomy Pre test (3 decks)

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