Unit 1 Post Quiz

Question 1

What is the major landmark of the medial brain? What does it connect?

Answer 1

Corpus callosum

Connects the 2 cerebral hemispheres

Question 2

For post to ant, the corpus callosum is divided into:

Answer 2

A spelenium, body, genu and rostrum

Question 3

Location of the rostrum

Answer 3

Anterior to the ant commisure

Question 4

What are the borders for the frontal lobe in lateral view

Answer 4

Post: Central sulcus

Ant: Frontal pole

Inf: Lateral fissure

Question 5

Gyri of the frontal lobe

Answer 5

Inf, middle, and sup frontal gyri

Along with a precentral gyrus

Question 6

Borders of the parietal lobe in lateral view

Answer 6

ant: central sulcus
inf: lateral fissure

Post: Parieto-occipital sulcus

Question 7

the parietal lobe presents what gyrus

Answer 7

postcentral gyrus

Question 8

the frontal lobe is the location for:

Answer 8

personality

Question 9

The parietal lobe is the location for:

Answer 9

general sensory (AKA primary somatosensory)

Question 10

Borders of the temporal lobe

Answer 10

superior border: lateral fissure

post border: line from parieto-occipito sulcus

Question 11

Gyri of the temporal lobe

Answer 11

sup, middle and inf temporal gyri

Question 12

Temporal lobe is important for:

Answer 12

auditory system

Question 13

borders of the occipital lobe

Answer 13

ant: parieto-occipital sulcus
post: occipital pole

Question 14

occipital lobe is important for:

Answer 14

vision

Question 15

function of the corpus callosum

Answer 15

How the 2 sides of the cerebrum communicate

Question 16

cingulate gyrus is located where?

It’s function:

Answer 16

above corpus callosum

limbic system (emotions/behaviors)

Question 17

Precentral gyrus is for:

Postcentral gyrus is for:

Between them is the ____. Function for this is:

Answer 17

primary motor

primary sensory

Nothing.. there’s no communication between pre and post.

Question 18

where is the calcarine fissure located?

Answer 18

in the occipital lobe

deep indentation only seen medially

line of reference for visual system

Question 19

Above the calcarine fissure provides function for:

Below the fissure provides function for:

Answer 19

Lower retina

upper retina

Question 20

function of pineal gland

Answer 20

circadium rhythms

Antigonadal (blocks sex hormones in children until it calcifies)

Question 21

location of septum pellucidum:

Its function:

Answer 21

below the corpus callosum

CT membrane covers the lateral ventricle

Question 22

Location of the fornix

function:

Answer 22

below septum pellucidum

Axon tract

Limbic system

Question 23

Location of thalamus

function:

Answer 23

below fornix

sensory switchboard

all senses goes through here except olfaction

sends senses to the correct area

Question 24

location of hypothalamus

function

Answer 24

anterior to thalamus

hunger, thirst, sex drive here

Question 25

location of interthalamic adhesion

function

Answer 25

inside the thalamus

where rt and lt thalamus rest against each other (30% of people don’t have)

Question 26

location of sup colliculus

function

Answer 26

inf to pineal gland

visual reflexes (pupillary response)

Question 27

location and function of inf colliculus

Answer 27

inf to sup colliculus

auditory reflexes

Question 28

infundibulum, AKA:

Answer 28

pituitary stalk

connection between brain and pituitary nerve

Question 29

cerebral peduncle function for:

made up of:

reference point for:

Answer 29

motor structures

axons

2 cranial nerves

Question 30

mamillary bodies are part of the:

function:

Answer 30

hypothalamus

basal life functions

Question 31

what can be seen anterior to the interpeduncular fossa

Answer 31

optic chiasm

infundibulum

mamillary bodies

Question 32

where is the parahippocampal gyrus present on the inf view

Answer 32

inf surface of the temporal lobe

Question 33

cerebral peduncles and interpeduncular fossa are present where

Answer 33

inf view of the brain