Week 3

Question 1

Difference between contralateral and ispilateral?

Answer 1

Contralateral = info received from opposite side of body creates action on the other. left effects right, right effects left.

Ipsilateral = info received in brain from same side of body

Question 2

Where is the Anterior part of the brain?

Answer 2

toward the front

Antlers (coming out of eyes)

Question 3

Where is the Posterior part of the brain?

Answer 3

towards the back

think: Post/past

Question 4

Where is the medial part of the brain?

Answer 4

middle

Question 5

Where is the Lateral part of the brain?

Answer 5

Towards the sides

Question 6

Where is the dorsal part of the brain?

Answer 6

Top front

Question 7

Where is the Ventral part of brain?

Answer 7

towards the bottom

underbelly of the brain

Question 8

Transverse
Horizontal plane
Sagital plane

Analogies

Answer 8

Transverse - carrot chopping - through the middle from the top

Horizontal - Subway - cuts on side

Sagital - hot dog - cut through middle

carrot, subway, hotdog.

Question 9

What is a group of Axons in the CNS called?

Answer 9

Tract

Question 10

What is a group of cell bodies in CNS called?

Answer 10

Nucleus

Question 11

What is a group of axons in peripheral NS called?

Answer 11

Nerve

Question 12

What is a group of cell bodies in PNS called?

Answer 12

Ganglion

Question 13

what are the sulci (sulcus)?

Answer 13

Valleys e.g. central sulcus
Fissures - Longitudinal, lateral

in brain

Question 14

What are the gyri (Gyrus)?

Answer 14

Bumps of brain

Question 15

What is in the cerebral cortex? (whole brain/lobes)

Answer 15

frontal lobe
Parietal Lobe
Temporal Lobe
Occipital Lobe

Question 16

What does the parietal lobe do?

Answer 16

body sensations, primary somatosensory cortex

Question 17

What does the frontal lobe do?

Answer 17

primary motor area, decision making process, speech production, planning, impulse control, motivation, inhibition

Question 18

What part of brain is speech production in?

Answer 18

Brocca’s area

Question 19

What does the temporal lobe responsible for?

Answer 19

primary auditory cortex, hearing, speech, comprehension, relay centre

Question 20

What is the occipital lobe responsible for?

Answer 20

Vision

Question 21

Where is the motor cortex located?

Answer 21

front, middle, cut like a carrot

Question 22

where is the somatosensory cortex located?

Answer 22

back, middle, cut like a carrot

Question 23

Where are the lateral ventricles?

Answer 23

middles, going out to the sides

Question 24

Which part of brain can be cut to treat epilepsy?

Answer 24

Corpus Collosum

Question 25

What does the corpus Collosum do?

Answer 25

relays info between hemispheres

Question 26

What does the anterior commissure do? And where is it located?

Answer 26

Connects the temporal lobes located front middle

Question 27

what is the endocrine system responsible for?

Answer 27

hormone secretion

Question 28

What is the job of hypothamus?

Answer 28

feeding, fleeing, fighting and fucking

Question 29

what gland does the hypothalamus regulate?

Answer 29

The pituitary gland

Question 30

What does the pituitary gland look like? Where is it located?

Answer 30

Looks like a sack, just behind the nose

Question 31

What does the Pituitary gland do?

Answer 31

The master gland - produces hormones that influence secretions of the thyroid, pancreas, adrenals & gonads. Also secretes growth hormones

Question 32

What does the Thyroid do?

Answer 32

produces hormones that regulate metobolic rate

Question 33

What do the adrenal glands do?

Answer 33

Controls salt & carbohydrate metabolism, secretes hormones active in arousal & sleep

Question 34

What is the pancreas?

Answer 34

produces insulin & glucose to control sugar metabolism

Question 35

What are the gonads?

Answer 35

Ovaries & testes.

Question 36

In what system is the pituitary gland and what does it do?

Answer 36

In the Endocrine system -regulates a bunch of the hormone systems.