A walk through the brain - Week 2

Question 1

What does the nucleus accumbens associate with?

Answer 1

Feelings of reward

Question 2

What neurotransmitter does the nucleus accumbens trigger?

Answer 2

Dopamine

Question 3

What are the 6 things the cerebellum is associated with?

Answer 3

Fear
Language
Attention
Balance
Pleasure
Procedural memories

Question 4

What are the 3 key ares of the brain stem?

Answer 4

Medulla oblongata
Pons
Mid brain

Question 5

What does the brain stem associate with?

Answer 5

Breathing
Digestion
Heart rate
Autonomic processes
Connects spinal cord with brain

Question 6

What’s another name for the Cerebrum?

Answer 6

Forebrain

Question 7

What’s the percentage of the cerebum brain volume?

Answer 7

75%

Question 8

What’s the cerebrum weight percentage in the brain?

Answer 8

85%

Question 9

What 4 lobes does the cerebrum split into?

Answer 9

Frontal lobe
Parietal lobe
Occipital lobe
temporal Lobe

Question 10

What are fissures?

Answer 10

deep grooves

Question 11

What are sulci?

Answer 11

shallow grooves

Question 12

What are gyri?

Answer 12

Brain bumps

Question 13

What does the longitudinal fissure do?

Answer 13

Splits the cerebrum into 2 hemispheres

Question 14

What are the nerve fibres called that link the brain hemispheres?

Answer 14

Corpus callosum

Question 15

What’s another name for the cerebral cortex?

Answer 15

Neo cortex

Question 16

What are the 6 layers of the cerebral cortex?

Answer 16

Molecular
External grandula
External Pyramidal
Interal granular
internal pyramidal
White matter

M iss
G o
P ee
G o
P ee
M iss

Question 17

What is pia mater?

Answer 17

Very fine layer of fibrous connective tissue lined with a simple epithelial layer composed of pial cells

Question 18

What is the cerebral cortex?

Answer 18

The outermost layer of the brain containing grey matter. Responsible for ‘higher order’ functions

Question 19

What are 3 specific systems of the brain?

Answer 19

Sensory
Motor
Limbic

Question 20

What is the limbic system associated with?

Answer 20

Emotions
Memory
Arousal

Question 21

What are 3 important parts of the limbic system?

Answer 21

Hypothalamas
Hippocapus
Amygdala

Question 22

What does grey matter contain?

Answer 22

Cell bodies of neurons
Unmyelinated axons
Glial cells
Blood vessels

CUGB

Question 23

What is the function of the prefrontal cortex?

Answer 23

High-order cognitive processes e.g.:
- Decision making
- Reasoning
- Personality
- Social cognition

Question 24

What are 9 key functions of the Prefrontal cortex?

Answer 24

1. Empathy
2. Insight
3. Response flexibility
4. Body regulation
5. Emotion regulation
6. Morality
7. Intuition
8. Attuned communication
9. Fear modulation

F I R E I E B M A

Question 25

What does the Hypothalamus do?

Answer 25

provides hormonal stimuli via the pituitary gland

Question 26

What is the Hippocampus associated with?

Answer 26

forming memories

Question 27

What is the Amygdala associated with?

Answer 27

central role in anger, fear, anxiety, pleasure, and in forming fear memories