Brain bits

Question 1

what are the three primary brain vesicles in a developing embryo?

Answer 1

the prosencephalon (forebrain), the mesencephalon (midbrain), and the rhombencephalon (hindbrain)

Question 2

what are the five secondary brain vesicles in a developing embryo?

Answer 2

the telencephalon and the diencephalon (from the prosencephalon), the metencephalon and the myelencephalon from the rhombencephalon. the mesencephalon stays the same.

Question 3

what are the 4 main regions in a fully-formed brain

Answer 3

the cerebellum, the brain stem (from the three most caudal sections), the diencephalon or interbrain, and the cerebral hemispheres

Question 4

what are (4) things you find in the diancephalon?

Answer 4

the thalamus, hypothalamus, epithalamus and the mammillary bodies

Question 5

what does the diancephalon regulate?

Answer 5

things like homeostasis, alertness, and reproductive activity, and part of the limbic system

Question 6

what does the telencephalon develop into?

Answer 6

the cerebrum