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Question 1

Do the lobes themselves define functional zones?

Answer 1

No, but the contain specific functional areas

Question 2

What are the Boundaries of frontal lobe?

Answer 2

central sulcus (rolando) and lateral cerebral fissure (sylvian)

Question 3

What Functions are found within the frontal lobe?

Answer 3

intelligence, personality, motivation, motor control

Question 4

Inferior frontal gyrus on speech dominant left side contains what?

Answer 4

motor speech area (Brocha’s) lexicon

Question 5

What are the boundaries of the parietal lobe?

Answer 5

Central sulcus, lateral fissure, and imaginary line between parieto-occipital sulcus and pre-occipital notch

Question 6

Functions of the parietal lobe?

Answer 6

sensation, language, and spatial orientation

Question 7

What are the main functions of supra marginal and angular gyri?

Answer 7

language processing

Question 8

Functions found within the temporal lobe?

Answer 8

hearing, language processing and visual processing

Question 9

What is main function of transverse temporal gyrus?

Answer 9

primary auditory cortex

Question 10

What does the superior temporal gyrus specifically contain?

Answer 10

Wernicke’s areas on speech dom. side for understanding speech

Question 11

Medial boundary of the occipital lobe?

Answer 11

parieto-occipital fissure

Question 12

Where is the primary visual cortex found?

Answer 12

cortex superior and inferior to calcarine fissure

Question 13

What makes up the limbic lobe?

Answer 13

cingulate gyrus, parahippocampal gyrus, uncus

Question 14

What are the functions of the limbic lobe?

Answer 14

emotions, basic smell, memory, basic drives

Question 15

Functions of insula

Answer 15

taste, visceral sensation, emotion of pain

Question 16

What was formed by complex folding of telencephalon, has primitive 3 layers, and is important in spatial memory?

Answer 16

hippocampus

Question 17

What is found at the very tip of hippocampus?

Answer 17

amygdala–nuclei interface between cortex and basal ganglia, associative learning

Question 18

What is subcortical gray matter regulating and coordinating movement ?

Answer 18

Basal Ganglia

Question 19

What portion of thalamus is pineal body in?

Answer 19

epithalamus- circadium rhythm

Question 20

What processes sensory and motor info going to and from cerebral cortex?

Answer 20

thalamus

Question 21

What integrates autonomics, endocrine, and limbic functions?

Answer 21

hypothalamus

Question 22

What functions in eye movement reflexes?

Answer 22

superior colliculus

Question 23

What functions as a relay station in auditory pathway?

Answer 23

inferior colliculus

Question 24

What is on the ventral surface of midbrain?

Answer 24

cerebral peduncles

Question 25

What cranial nerves arise from midbrain?

Answer 25

CN III and CN IV

Question 26

Pons contains which cranial nerve nuclei?

Answer 26

CN V, VI, VII

Question 27

Ventral surface of medulla is marked by what?

Answer 27

pyramids

Question 28

Medulla contains which CN nuclei?

Answer 28

CN VIII through XII

Question 29

Cerebellum is involved in >?

Answer 29

coordination of movement

Question 30

Where does conus medullar is end?

Answer 30

L2

Question 31

What type of hemorrhage is common in head trauma?

Answer 31

subarachnoid

Question 32

What meningeal layer contains middle meningeal artery and sensory supply from CN V?

Answer 32

endosteal (periosteal) layer of dura mater

Question 33

Inner meningeal layer between hemispheres? between cerebellum and cerebrum?

Answer 33

falx cerebri, and tentorium cerebelli

Question 34

Where does spinal dura end?

Answer 34

S2

Question 35

denticulate ligaments are made from which layer?

Answer 35

pia– filum terminale at L1/L2