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Topic 2: Anatomy Flashcards

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What structure is #1? What is it functions?

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frontal lobe

planning, cognition, motor system

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What structure is #6? What is it functions?

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parietal lobe

somatosensory & attention

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What structure is #3? What is it functions?

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central sulcus

seperate frontal lobe from parietal lobe

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What structure is #5? What is it functions?

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occipital lobe

visual processing

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What structure is #2? What is it functions?

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Sylvian (lateral) fissure

seperate temporal lobe from front lobe & parietal lobe

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What structure is #1? What is it functions?

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precentral gyrus

motor cortex

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What structure is #4? What is it functions?

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postcentral gyrus

somatic sensory cortex

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What structure is #5? What is it functions?

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Superior temporal gyrus

primary auditory processing

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What structure is #1? What is it functions?

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parahippocampus gyrus

memory storage

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What structure is #8 & 5? What is it functions?

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oldfactory bulb and oldfactory tract

smell

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What structure is #12? What is it functions?

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uncus

memory storage

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What structure is #9? What is it functions? Where is it relate to hypothalamus position?

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optic chiasm

where is the optic nerves cross for visual processing

below hypothalamus

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What structure is #7? What structure attach to this?

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infundibular stalk

pituitary gland

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What structure is #2? What part of brain is this structure?

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mammillary body

hypothalamus of diencephalon

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What structure mark the midbrain? # on the picture?

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cerebral peduncles

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What structure is #6? What is it functions?

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Pons

relay information btw cortex and cerebellum

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What structure is #11? What is it functions?

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Medulla pyramids

relay motor information btw cortex and spinal cord

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What structure is #10? What is it functions?

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cerebellum

motor learning and coordination

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What structure is #4? What is its function?

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temporal

auditory, recognition

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What structure is #3? What is its function? What part of bigger structure is this relate to?

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inferior olive

coordination and movement

medulla

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what does fornix do?

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connect hippocampus & hypothalamus

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In which direction does the association fibers send the axons? In what pathways does it relate to?

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send axons down and to the adjacent cortex

association pathways

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What structures that we can observe in the external anatomy of ventral view of brain? In order rostral -> caudal

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oldfactory bulb/tract

optic chiasm

infundibular stalk

parahippocampus gyrus

uncus

cerebral debuncles

pons

medulla pyramids

inferior olives

cerebellum

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Structure #1? Functions?

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parieto-occipital lobe

seperate occipital and parietal

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Structure #2? Functions?
calcarine sulcus primary visual processing
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Structure #5? Functions?
Midbrain Head orienting movement Neuromodulatory source voluntary movement
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Structure #3? Functions? Hint: its part of midbrain
superior colliculus head orienting movement in response to visual input
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Structure #4? Functions? Hint: its part of midbrain
Inferior colliculus head orienting in response to auditory
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Structure #6? What is it made of?
Arbor Vitae white matter tract
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Structure #7? Functions?
Cerebellum cortex (gray matter) motor learning motor coordination
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Structure #8? Functions?
Pons relay information btw cortex & cerebellum
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Structure #9? Functions?
temporal lobe auditory and recognition
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Structure #10? Functions?
Foramen of Monroe connect later and third ventricles
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Structure #11? Functions?
corpus collosum (white matter) information pathway between hemispheres
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Structure #12?
lateral ventricles
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Structure #13? Functions?
cingulate gyrus surrounding corpus collosum & process emotional content and part of limbic system
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Structure #14? Functions?
cingulate sulcus seperate frontal & parietal lobe with cingulate gyrus
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Structure #15? Functions?
fornix
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