Brain

Question 1

What structure separates the precentral and post central gyri?

Answer 1

Central sulcus

Question 2

What is the name for a groove in the structure of the brain?

Answer 2

Sulcus

Question 3

What is the name for a fold of the brain?

Answer 3

Gyrus

Question 4

What structures separates the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain?

Answer 4

Lateral sulcus

Question 5

What is the name of the somatotropic ‘body map’ which exists in the precentral gyrus?

Answer 5

Motor hommunculus

Question 6

What is the name of the somatotropic ‘body map’ which exists in the post central gyrus?

Answer 6

Sensory hommunculus

Question 7

In which hemisphere of the brain is Broca’s area usually found?

Answer 7

Left hemisphere

Question 8

Where in the brain is Broca’s area located?

Answer 8

(Usually left) inferior frontal gyrus

Question 9

What are the two parts of the inferior frontal gyrus of the brain?

Answer 9

Pats opercularis

Pats triangularis

Question 10

Wernickes area is found in the dominant hemisphere of the brain. Which hemisphere is this in most people?

Answer 10

Left

Question 11

Which two nuclei comprise the lentiform/lenticular nucleus?

Answer 11

Putamen

Globes pallid is

Question 12

Which nuclei of the basal ganglia is primarily affected by Parkinson’s disease?

Answer 12

Substantial Nigra

Question 13

What structures makes up the corpus striatum of the brain?

Answer 13

Caudate nucleus, putamen and globus pallid is

Question 14

Which nuclei of the brain make up the basal ganglia?

Answer 14

Caudate nucleus
Putamen
Globus pallidus
Thalamus
Substantial nigra

Question 15

What is the function of the basal ganglia?

Answer 15

Influencing motor activity and motor control

Question 16

What are the names of the four ventricles of the brain?

Answer 16

Left and right lateral ventricles
Third ventricle
Fourth ventricle

Question 17

Which ventricle of the brain is located posterior to the pond and anterior to the cerebellum?

Answer 17

Fourth ventricle

Question 18

Where in the brain is the CSF produced?

Answer 18

Choroid plexus within the ventricular system

Question 19

What is the name of the white mater structure which carries motor and sensory information past the basal ganglia to the cerebral cortex?

Answer 19

Internal capsule

Question 20

What is the name of the white matter structure which connects the two hemispheres of the brain?

Answer 20

Corpus callous

Question 21

What are the four parts of the corpus callous in order from most anterior to most posterior?

Answer 21

Rostrum
Genu
Body
Splenium

Question 22

What is meant by somatotropin of the brain?

Answer 22

The point for point correspondence of an area of the body to a specific point on the CNS

Question 23

What is the name of the continuation of the internal capsule past the basal ganglia?

Answer 23

Corona radiata

Question 24

What is the name of the white mater bundle which lies lateral to the lentiform nucleus?

Answer 24

Claustrum

Question 25

Where is the insular cortex located?

Answer 25

Immediately lateral to the claustrum and lentiform nucleus

Question 26

The corticobulbar axons exist at the most medial point of the genu. What nerves do these axons innervate?

Answer 26

Cranial nerves

Question 27

What is the name of the anastomoses which supplies the brain?

Answer 27

Circle of Willis