brain

Question 1

whats cerebellum for

Answer 1

motor learning, cognitive function, balance

Question 2

frontal association cortex

Answer 2

intelligence, personality, behavious, mood, cognitive function

Question 3

parietal association cortex

Answer 3

spatial skills, 3D recognition (shapes, faces, concepts, abstract perception)

Question 4

temporal association cortex

Answer 4

memory, mood, aggression, intelligence

Question 5

what is in precentral gyrus

Answer 5

primary motor cortex (contains large motor neurons in periphery to activate movements at periphery)

Question 6

what language areas only occur in dominant hemisphere

Answer 6

exners area (controls hand for writing
brocas speech area
wernickes area
smagla and agla

Question 7

what does primary auditory cortex do

Answer 7

organise tones and times (block out unmeaningful context)

Question 8

what does Wernickes area do

Answer 8

secondary cortical (interprets sounds)

Question 9

what is in postcentral gyrus

Answer 9

primary sensory cortex (sensory axons recieve info so is granular shaped)

Question 10

whats aphasia

Answer 10

difficulty in language due to lesion in wernickes area (fluent or sensory aphasia)

Question 11

whats brocas aphasia

Answer 11

non fluent or motor aphasia (difficulty in expressing what they want to say)

Question 12

whats connectional aphasia

Answer 12

connection between brocas and wernickes area affected

Question 13

3 layers that protect spinal cord

Answer 13

pia, arachnoid, dura mater

Question 14

what do rootlets do

Answer 14

distribute information to and from spinal cord. rootlets come together to form dorsal and ventral root

Question 15

what do dorsal and ventral root form

Answer 15

spinal nerve

Question 16

how fast are myelinated and unmyelinated axons

Answer 16

50m/s and 1 m/s

Question 17

whats touch receptor called

Answer 17

Meissners corpuscle

Question 18

whats pressure receptor called

Answer 18

paccinian corpuscle

Question 19

what does free nerve ending affect

Answer 19

unmyelinated for pain and temp`

Question 20

what is the 3 regions of grey matter

Answer 20

sensory, autonomic, motor

Question 21

whats autonomic for

Answer 21

balance and posture

Question 22

what carries discriminative info

Answer 22

dorsal funiculus

Question 23

where do pain and temp fibres transport up to

Answer 23

ventral funiculus

Question 24

whats brown sequard syndrome

Answer 24

where one side of the spinal cord is damaged

Question 25

whats dissociative and associative sensory loss

Answer 25

dissociative - lesion further up
associative -lesion in brain stem

Question 26

what does lesion in upper motor neuron cause

Answer 26

spastic paralysis

Question 27

lesion in lower motor neuron causes

Answer 27

flaccid paralysis

Question 28

what are pyramids associated with

Answer 28

corticospinal tract

Question 29

what causes parkinsons disease

Answer 29

destruction of cells in substantia niagra (needs more glutamate but its toxic)

Question 30

What’s white matter

Answer 30

Has axon Tracts coming out from neurons

Question 31

What’s grey matter

Answer 31

Where neuron cell bodies are housed

Question 32

What’s Meissners corpuscle

Answer 32

Touch encapsulated receptor

Question 33

What’s paccinian corpuscle

Answer 33

Pressure encapsulated receptor

Question 34

What does less neurons mean

Answer 34

Less pain or sensation in that area

Question 35

What sorts out what information is important and relevant at the time

Answer 35

Thalamus

Question 36

where does pathway of discriminative sensation occur

Answer 36

dorsal medial lemniscal (cross over occurd at brain stem medulla)

Question 37

where does pathway of pain/temp sensation occur

Answer 37

spinothalamic tract (crosses over in spinal cord)

Question 38

where does discriminative info decussate

Answer 38

internal arcuate fibres

Question 39

what are the 5 basal ganglia

Answer 39

caudate nucleus
putamen
globus pallidus
subthalamic nucleus
substantia nigra