Basic overview of the brain

Question 1

anatomical terms

Answer 1

Rostral-Towards the nose
Caudal- Towards the tail
Medial- Towards the middle
Lateral- Futher away from the middle

Question 2

What does the Diencephalon consist of?

Answer 2

Contains the thalamus, Hypothalamus, sabthalumus

Question 3

Cauda equina syndrome (CES)

Answer 3

when there is dysfunction of multiple lumbar and sacral nerve roots of the cauda equina. This is when there is damage to the lower part of the CNS

Question 4

lumbar puncture

Answer 4

a thin needle is instead between the bones of the lower spine-used to take a sample of cerebrospinal fluid

Question 5

Where is cerebrospinal fluid produced?

Answer 5

choroid plexus

Question 6

What artery is used in the anterior circulation

Answer 6

Internal carotid artery

Question 7

What artery is used in the posterior circulation

Answer 7

Vertebral artery

Question 8

where do people tend to have strokes?

Answer 8

Middle cerebral artery

Question 9

Frontal lobe

Answer 9

involved in personality characteristics, decision-making and movement
contains Broca’s area, which is associated with speech ability

Question 10

Parietal lobe

Answer 10

understand spatial relationships

also involved in interpreting pain and touch in the body

Question 11

Occipital lobe

Answer 11

occipital lobe is the back part of the brain that is involved with vision

Question 12

Temporal lobe

Answer 12

involved in short-term memory, emotion, speech, musical rhythm

Question 13

What part of the brain is responsible for motor and sensory information

Answer 13

Motor stuff happens at the front sensory things happen at the back

Question 14

What is insular cx used for?

Answer 14

Used to check emotion and homeostasis

Question 15

What is the corpus callosum

Answer 15

Corpus callosum is the part in between with axons that connects the brain hemisphere

Question 16

Hierarchy of neuronal map

Answer 16

S1- site of initiation of sensory processing
S2- site higher level processing
M1- site of final output station of motor processing
M2- site of higher level processing from M1

Question 17

What does somatatopic mean

Answer 17

Specific parts of the body associated with specific parts of the nervous system

Question 18

Where are high level information passed in the nervous system

Answer 18

CNS

Question 19

What do cortical columns do?

Answer 19

Process and integrate cortical and subcortical

Question 20

What is CSF

Answer 20

CSF allows space between the brain and skull
Brain floats on CSF
CSF includes sodium, oxygen, calcium, potassium, glucose, peptides
When asleep the CSF gets pushed down the outside of the blood vessels- Happens during delta waves making the brain pulse

Question 21

eloquent cortex

Answer 21

Parts of the cortex that are involved in sensory and visual are called eloquent cortex

Question 22

Korsakoff syndrome

Answer 22

Korsakoff syndrome is memory loss in mostly alcoholics

Question 23

Basal ganglia

Answer 23

Basal ganglia is where movement is processed