Brain and Nervous System Flashcards
What are efferent motor neurons and afferent motor neurons?
Efferent: carry impulses away from CNS to muscles/glands
Afferent: carry impulses to CNS from sense organs
What are the directions of the body?
Ventral/Anterior- front of body
Posterior/Dorsal- back of body
Cephallic- where the brain is
Medial- inside (middle)
Lateral- outside of the middle
Distel- bottom of limb
Proximal- top of limb
Superior- top of body
Inferior- bottom of body
What are the directions of our brain?
Anterior Rostral (front of brain)
Inferior (bottom bit of brain)
Posterior Caudal (back of brain)
Superior (top of brain)
What are the types of perspectives we can view our brains at?
Coronal: front view of brain
Mid Sagittal (or medial): side view of brain, if the side of the brain isn’t directly in the middle it’s called lateral sagittal
Axial: view of top of the brain
What is right and left lateral?
Left lateral is the left hemisphere, we can tell because the cerebellum is on the right hand side and the eyes are on the left
Right lateral is the right hemisphere, cerebellum is on the left side
What are the types of neuroanatomy?
Gross and microscopic anatomy
What is the CNS and PNS?
Central Nervous System: brain and spine
Peripheral Nervous System: all the nerves other than spine and brain. Divided into Somatic nervous system and Autonomic nervous system
What are the Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Nervous systems?
Parasympathetic: rest and digest - calm down
Sympathetic: fight or flight - prepare for action
What is the amygdala and where is it?
Important for emotion
Hippocampus involves memory processes
Next to hippocampus which is why emotional memories are recalled better
What is contralateral representation?
What we see with our left eye is processed in the right hemisphere, use our right side of the body, ordered by the left hemisphere
What is grey and white matter?
White matter: mostly axons (which connects nerve cells so they can communicate)
Grey matter: contains majority of nerve cells
What is the central sulcus?
separates the parietal and frontal lobe
What is the sylvian fissure?
also known as lateral fissure
separates the temporal and frontal lobe
What is the parieto-occipital sulcus?
separates parietal and occipital lobe
What is the temporal occipital sulcus?
separates temporal and occipital lobe
What is the cerebrum?
Cerebral cortex, outer layer of our brain
The cortex is grey matter