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9 - Gross anatomy of the brain I Flashcards

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What are gyri?

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Ridges of brain

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What are sulci?

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Small folds in the brain

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What are the main folds and fissures in the brain?

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  • longitudinal cerebral fissure
  • central sulcus
  • lateral sulcus
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How are grey and white mater organised in the brain?

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White mater is enclosed by grey mater - white on the inside

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What is the overall function of the cerebrum?

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  • cerebral cortex controls higher brain activity
  • memory, intelligence, personality
  • interpretation of impulses
  • initiation of voluntary movement
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What are the lobes of the cerebrum?

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  • frontal
  • temporal
  • parietal
  • occipital
  • insula
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Where is the insula located?

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Deep to frontal, parietal and temporal

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What divides the hemispheres of the cerebrum?

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Falx cerebri

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9
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What are folia?

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Ridges of the cerebellum

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Where is the cerebellum located?

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  • posterior to medulla, pons and midbrain
  • inferior to cerebrum
  • lies in posterior cranial fossa
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What connects the hemispheres of the cerebrum?

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corpus collosum

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What connects the hemispheres of the cerebellum?

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Vermis

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What is the function of the cerebellum?

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controls balance on the ipsilateral side of the body

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What makes up the brainstem?

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  • medulla
  • pons
  • midbrain
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Where is the midbrain located?

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Junction of anterior/posterior cranial fossi

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What makes up the diencephalon?

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  • epithalamus
  • hypothalamus
  • thalamus
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Where is the medulla located?

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  • continuous with spinal cord
  • posterior cranial fossa
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Where is the pons located?

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  • forms bridge between medulla and midbrain
  • anterior part of posterior cranial fossa
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What CN are associated with the midbrain?

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  • CN III
  • CN IV
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What CN are associated with the medulla?

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  • CN IX
  • CN X
  • CN XII
21
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What CN are associated with the pons?

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CN V

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What CN arise between the junction of the pons and medulla?

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  • CN VI
  • CN VII
  • CN VIII
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What is another name for the insula?

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limbic system

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What is contained in the insula?

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  • hypocampus
  • fornix
  • amygdala
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How are the frontal and parietal lobes separated?

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Central sulcus

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How are the parietal and occipital lobes separated?

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Parieto-occipital sulcus (medial side)

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How are the temporal, parietal and frontal lobes separated?

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Lateral sulcus

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What are the different areas of the frontal lobe?

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  • prefrontal cortex
  • motor cortex
  • broca’s area
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Describe the prefrontal cortex.

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  • most anterior
  • problem solving, complex planning and decision making, personality
  • depth of feeling, judgement, initiative
  • coordinates all association areas
30
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Describe the somatic motor association area.

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  • premotor cortex
  • anterior to primary motor cortex
  • learned movements
31
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What is a cortical association area?

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An area that coordinates motor responses or interprets sensory information.

32
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Describe the primary motor cortex.

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  • pre central gyrus
  • control of voluntary movement
  • specific areas of the gyrus map to specific body parts
33
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Describe Broca’s area.

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  • motor speech area
  • production of speech
  • usually found in the left hemisphere (ie the dominant hemisphere)
  • regulates breathing patterns when speaking
  • coordinates muscles to produce correct sounds
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What is broca’s aphasia?

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Patients can comprehend words but not form them themselves (speech and writing)

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What are the different areas in the parietal lobe?

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  • primary somatosensory cortex
  • sensory association area (posterior parietal cortex)
36
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Describe the primary somatosensory cortex.

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  • postcentral gyrus
  • tactile sensation
  • conscious perception of pain, temperature, vibrations, taste, touch etc
37
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Describe the posterior parietal cortex.

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  • interpretation of the sensory information
  • spatial perception
  • cognitive function
  • ability to recognise objects without having seen them (ie feel with hands)
38
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What is the homunculus?

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  • map of the body to the gyrus
  • motor and sensory
  • size relates to degree of fine motor skill or sensory feedback
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What are the different areas of the occipital lobe?

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  • visual cortex
  • visual association area
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Describe the primary visual cortex.

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  • located at the calcarine sulcus
  • receives visual information from the thalamus
  • conscious perception of visual information
  • right field of vision is represented in the LHS of brain
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Describe the visual association area.

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  • relates information from visual cortex to previous experiences
42
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What are the different areas of the temporal lobe?

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  • auditory cortex
  • auditory association area
  • Wernicke’s area
  • temporal cortex
43
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Describe the auditory cortex.

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Perception of sounds including words, pitch and tone

44
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Describe Wernicke’s area.

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  • language comprehension
  • found in dominant hemisphere
  • important to personality
45
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What is Wernicke’s aphasia?

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  • can form words but in meaningless sentences
  • rhyming words are often used
  • understanding of what words mean is lost
46
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What connects Wercnike’s and Broca’s area?

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Arcuate fasciculus

47
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Describe the auditory association area.

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  • recognition of words
  • memory related to grammar and vocabulary
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What is the function of the insula?

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  • anterior involved in language (planning and coordination)
  • posterior involved in integrating information regrading pain
  • connected to olfactory cortex and gustatory
  • cardiovascular homeostasis
  • emotional and empathic response

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