1.2 neuro - gross anatomy of the brain

Question 1

Cerebral cortex

Answer 1

Outer surface of the brain (cerebrum)

Question 2

What is a gyrus?

Answer 2

Bumps on the brain

Question 3

What is a sulcus?

Answer 3

Grooves on the brain

Question 4

Superior sagittal sulcus

Answer 4

Separates the right and left hemispheres

Question 5

Name the anatomical / functional lobes of the brain

Answer 5

Frontal, temporal, parietal, occipital, limic, insular

Question 6

What divides the frontal and parietal lobe?

Answer 6

Central sulcus

Question 7

What divides the temporal lobe from the frontal and parietal lobes?

Answer 7

Lateral fissure

Question 8

What divides the parietal and occipital lobes?

Answer 8

Parieto-occipital sulcus

Question 9

Paracentral lobule

Answer 9

Where the pre and post central gyri come together medially

Question 10

Pre and post central gyri

Answer 10

Gyri immediately nostral (pre, frontal lobe) and caudal (post, parietal lobe) to the central sulcus

Question 11

Is the limbic lobe an anatomical or functional lobe

Answer 11

Functional

Question 12

What structures bind the limbic lobe

Answer 12

Cingulate and collateral sulci

Question 13

Where is the insular lobe

Answer 13

Beneath the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes

Question 14

Function of the frontal lobe

Answer 14

Executive function, decision making, planning, personality

Question 15

Function of the parietal lobe

Answer 15

Primary somatosensory cortex, association cortex

Question 16

Function of the occipital lobe

Answer 16

Primary visual cortex

Question 17

Function of the temporal lobe

Answer 17

Primary auditory cortex, language comprehension

Question 18

Function of the limbic lobe

Answer 18

Memory, emotion

Question 19

Function of the insular lobe

Answer 19

Visceral sensation, integrates taste and smell, integrates visceral sensation and emotion