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What is a slice from the left to the right?

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Coronal

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What is a slice from the anterior to the posterior?

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Sagital

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What is a slice horizontally?

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Horizontal

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What lobe is the primary somatosensory cortex, sensory association areas and wernickes area in?

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Parietal lobe

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What two parts of the cerebral cortex represent the body in the homunculus man?

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The somatosensory cortex and the motor cortex

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What lobe does the primary auditory cortex, auditory association area, limbic association cortex and the olfactory cortex belong to?

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Temporal lobe

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What does the occipital lobe control?

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Sense of sight

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What does the temporal lobe control?

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Senses of smell and sound, as well as complex stimuli processing (eg. faces and senses)

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What are the 4 lobes of the brain?

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Frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal

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What is the front of the brain anatomically termed?

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Anterior

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What three parts does the hindbrain include?

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Pons, medulla oblongata and the cerebellum

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Where is the 4th ventricle situated in the brain?

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Behind the pons and medulla oblongata

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What does the locus courcleus in pons contain?

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Noradrenaline positive cells

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Give the two areas of the rhombencephalon?

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Metencephalon and myelencephalon

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What is the prosencephalon?

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Forebrain

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What is the hindbrain called?

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Rhombencephalon

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What is the mesencephalon?

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Midbrain

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Where are myelinating glial cells made in a) the CNS and b) the PNS?

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Oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells

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What are in the pons/medulla contains the chemoreceptors trigger zone?

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Postrema

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In the midsagital part of the brain what connects the two hemispheres?

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The corpus callosum

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What in the diancephalon is involved in the endocrine function and homeostasis?

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The hypothalamus

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What is the frontal lobe in control of and want can damage to it lead to?

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Conscious though and mood changes

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What does the involuntary or autonomic NS control?

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Heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, gut movements etc

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What in the midbrain is the motor system which has dopamine contains cells?

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Substantia nigra

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What is the reticular formation of the medulla and hindbrain in control of?

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Allergens and cardiovascular functions

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What is the motor control structure?

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Red nucleus

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Hat is the limbic system involved in in the diancephalon?

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Mood and emotion

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What is the important relay nucleus in the diancephalon?

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Dorsal thalamus

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What are the cerebral and neo-cortex involved in in the telencephalon?

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Higher functions

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What is the penequeductal grey matter in the midbrain important for?

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Emotive pain pathways and fear

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High lobe is involved in processing visual spatial, integrating various sense and manipulation of objects?

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Parietal lobe

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Give three differences between a rat and a human brain?

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Different in size, rats brains have little folding, the anatomical terminology is different

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What is the space between the dura and the arachnoid mater called?

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The subdural space

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How is the top and bottom of the brain anatomically termed?

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Superior and inferior

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What are the gyri and sulci in the cerebral hemispheres?

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Ridges and valleys

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Name the three membranes from the inside out?

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Pia, arachnoid and dura matter

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What does the pituitary gland do in the diancephalon?

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Control the release of hormone

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Which membrane of the meninges enters the sulci?

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The pia mater

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Now many membranes are in the meninges?

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3

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Is the lower of upper toros medially represented?

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Lower torso

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What does the superios colliculus do in the midbrain?

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Receives visual spatial inputs and brings the eyes to focus

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What in the hindbrain contains 5-HT cells?

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Raphe nuclei

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What are the two sections of the occipital lobe?

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Visual association area and primary visual cortex

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What is part of the extra pyramidal motor cortex system (corpus striatum) in the telencephalon?

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The basal ganglia

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Hat four sections does the frontal lobe split into?

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Prefrontal association area, Broca’s area, premotor cortex and primary motor cortex

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What is the claudate nucleus in the telencephalon involved in?

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Motor disorders

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Give the two areas of the prosencephalon?

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Telencephalon and diancephalon

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Where is the third ventricle situated?

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Between the two cerebral hemispheres

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