The Brain

Question 1

What is gray matter and where can it be found?

Answer 1

Very external and in the brain groove
Cell bodies

Question 2

What is white matter and where can it be found?

Answer 2

Inner brain
Myelinated axons

Question 3

What are the four main parts of the brain?

Answer 3

Cerebrum
Cerebellum
Diencepholon
Brain stem

Question 4

What is another word for the brain stem?

Answer 4

Medulla oblongata

Question 5

When looking at the cerebrum, what are two indicators that neurosurgeons use to identify where they are at in the brain

Answer 5

Longitudinal Fissure
Transverse fissure

Question 6

What are the two main fissures in the brain?

Answer 6

Longitudinal
Transverse

Question 7

Where can you find the longitudinal fissure

Answer 7

In between both sides of the brain
Sagittal cut

Question 8

Where can you find the transverse fissure

Answer 8

Separating the cerebrum from the cerebral

Question 9

What is the name of the ridges making up the brain?

Answer 9

Gyrus

Question 10

What are the two main gyrus points of the brain?

Answer 10

Precentral
Postcentral

Question 11

What are the shallow grooves in the brain?

Answer 11

Sulcus

Question 12

What are the two main sulcus in the brain?

Answer 12

Central
Lateral

Question 13

How would you identify the central sulcus?

Answer 13

It is the main coronal cut in he brain

Question 14

What does the lateral circus separate?

Answer 14

The frontal lobe and parietal lobs from the temporal lobe

Question 15

Compared to the central sulcus which side would you find each gyrus on the brain?

Answer 15

Precentral gyrus would be more interior
Post central gyrus would be slightly anterior of the central sulcus

Question 16

What are the four main lobes of the brain?

Answer 16

Frontal
Parietal
Temporal
Occipital

Question 17

What part of the brain takes up a majority of the gray and white matter

Answer 17

Cerebrum

Question 18

What are the few things you can find in the cerebrum?

Answer 18

Cerebral cortex
cerebral white matter
Basil nuclei
Septum pellucidum

Question 19

When looking at the brain, how can you identify the cerebral cortex?

Answer 19

The outermost part of the brain

Question 20

Is the cerebral cortex white or gray matter?

Answer 20

Gray matter

Question 21

When looking at the brain, how can you determine and find the cerebral white matter?
What is in the cerebral white matter?

Answer 21

It is the deeper part of the cerebral cortex where you can find the
Corpus Callosum
Fornix

Question 22

When looking at the brain, how can you identify the corpus callosum and the fornix

Answer 22

The corpus callosum is a dense curve in the cerebrum
Fornix attaches to the corpus callosum slightly underneath

Question 23

When looking at the cerebrum within the cerebral cortex, how can you identify the septum pellucidum

Answer 23

It is in between the corpus callosum and the Fornix

Question 24

Deeper within the cerebral cortex, what can you find?

Answer 24

Basil nuclei

Question 25

When looking at the brain, how can you identify the diencephalon

Answer 25

It is a small round part of the brain that looks like an egg

Question 26

What can you find in the diencepholon

Answer 26

Thalamus Hypothalamus Epithalamus Pituitary gland

Question 27

What is inside the thalamus

Answer 27

Intermediate mass

Question 28

What separates and goes right in between both intermediate masses in the thalamus

Question 29

Right below the thalamus is the

Answer 29

Hypothalamus

Question 30

What is found in the hypothalamus?

Answer 30

Mammillary bodies

Question 31

Where can you identify the mammary bodies?

Answer 31

They say closest to the brain stem posterior to the pituitary

Question 32

Where can you find the third ventricle?

Answer 32

Around the thalamus and intermediate mass

Question 33

What is the piece that the pituitary gland hangs off of?

Answer 33

Infundibulum

Question 34

Breakdown how and where the pituitary gland is found in the brain

Answer 34

Thalamus Hypothalamus Infundibulum Pituitary gland

Question 35

Where is the epithalamus located?

Answer 35

Posterior end of the diemcephalon

Question 36

What can you find in the epithalamus?

Answer 36

Penal gland

Question 37

What can you find in the brain stem?

Answer 37

Midbrain Ponds Medulla oblongata

Question 38

How can you identify the medulla oblongata?

Answer 38

Starting of the brain stem

Question 39

What is the bulge on the brain stem connected to the medulla oblongata?

Answer 39

Pons

Question 40

What can you find in the midbrain?

Answer 40

Cerebral penduncles Corpora quadridgemina

Question 41

How can you identify the corpora quadridgemina when looking at the brain

Answer 41

They are right above the penile gland And they are two little bumps side to side or four little bumps in a square

Question 42

How can you identify the cerebral peduncles

Answer 42

Interior structure to hold up the brain

Question 43

In what order do the ventricles of the brain go?

Answer 43

Lateral ventricle Third ventricle Cerebral aqueduct Fourth ventricle

Question 44

When looking at the cerebellum, what does it look like?

Answer 44

A tree

Question 45

What is the tree looking structure called?

Answer 45

Arbor vitae

Question 46

What is another name for the cerebellum?

Answer 46

Tree of life