Basil Ganglia and Cerebellum Flashcards
What are the three lobes of the cerebellum?
Anterior, Posterior and Flocculondular
On the Arbor Vitae, what are the indentations referred to as?
Sulci or fissures
On the Arbor Vitae, what are the gyri called?
Folia
The white matter in the Arbor Vitae contains?
Grey matter
What is the small region of grey matter within the Arbor Vitae?
Deep cerebellar nuclei
What attaches the cerebellum to the brainstem?
Peduncles
What are the four deep cerebellar nuclei from lateral to medial?
Dentate, emboliform, globose and fastigial
What is the largest and most lateral nucleus of the deep cerebellar?
Dentate
What is the second largest and most medial nucleus of the deep cerebellar?
Fastigial
What are the three layers of the cerebral cortex?
Molecular layer (outer), Purkinje cell layer (middle), Granule cell layer (inner)
What afferent fibres to the cerebellum come from spinal cord?
Spinocerebellar fibers
What afferent fibres to cerebellum come from pons?
Pontocerebellar fibres
Where does the pontocerebellar fibres receive input from?
Cerebral cortex via corticopontine fibres
What afferent fibres to cerebellum come from the vestibular nuclei?
Vestibulocerebellar fibres
What afferent fibres to cerebellum come from the inferior olivary nucleus?
Olivocerebellar fibres
Where do the afferent projections to the cerebellum enter?
Via cerebellar peduncles
How do the afferent projections reach the cerebellar cortex as?
Climbing fibres or Mossy fibres
Where do climbing fibres originate?
In the inferior olivary nucleus
Cerebellar afferents from other sources end as?
Mossy fibres
Explain the synapse of the climbing fibres?
Synapse discretely but extensively on a purkinje cell
Explain the synapse of the mossy fibres?
Synapse diffusely on Granule cells in the granule cell layer
From the cerebellum the only output is via?
The axons of purkinje cells
Where do purkinje cells synapse?
On neurons of the deep cerebellar nuclei
What purkinje cells project directly to vestibular nuclei?
Flocculonodular
What axons of the deep cerebellar nuclei cross the midline and synapse in the thalamus?
Efferent
Where does the thalamus send fibres to?
Motor cortex
Deep cerebellar nuclei sends fibres to?
Vestibular nuclei, red nucleus and reticular formation
What are the functional divisions of the cerebellum?
Vestibiulocerebellum, Spinocerebellum and Pontocerebellum
What does the vestibulocerebellum consist of?
Flocculonodular lobe