Brain Nuclei

Question 1

Hypothalamic nucleus responsible for hunger

Answer 1

Lateral nuclei

Question 2

Lesion to lateral hypothalamus causes what

Answer 2

Anorexia; if you zap your lateral nucleus, you shrink laterally

Question 3

Hypothalamic nucleus responsible for cooling, PSNS innervation

Answer 3

Anterior hypothalamus; anterior nucleus = cool off (cooling, PSNS), A/C = anterior cooling

Question 4

Hypothalamic nuclei responsible for heating, SNS

Answer 4

Posterior nucleus; if you zap you POsterior hypothalamus, you become a POikilotherm (cold-blooded, like a snake)

Question 5

Thalamic nucleus that gets input from the spinothalamic and dorsal column/medial lemniscus

Answer 5

VPL

Question 6

Type of info the VPL receives

Answer 6

Pain/temp (spinothalamic), pressure/touch/vibration/proprioception (dorsal column/medial lemniscus)

Question 7

This thalamic nuclei receives input from the trigeminal and gustatory pathway

Answer 7

VPM; Makeup goes on the face (vpM)

Question 8

Type of info received by the VPM

Answer 8

gustatory and facial sensation

Question 9

This thalamic nuclei recieves info from the superior olive and inferior colliculus of the tectum

Answer 9

MGN

Question 10

Type of info received by the MGN

Answer 10

Hearing; M=Music

Question 11

CN II feeds into what thalamic nuclei

Answer 11

LGN; L=Light (vision)

Question 12

Basal ganglia feeds into what thalamic nucleus

Answer 12

VL

Question 13

Type of info received by the VL

Answer 13

Motor

Question 14

Pure sensory strokes affect what thalamic nuclei

Answer 14

VPL and VPM