Brain Structure

Question 1

What are the four main regions of the forebrain?

Answer 1

The Frontal, Temporal, Parietal and Occipital Lobes

Question 2

What are the four main landmarks which divide the forebrain into its four main regions?

Answer 2

The Central Sulcus, The Lateral Fissure, The Pre-Occipital Notch and the Superior end of the Parietal-Occipital sulcus

Question 3

Identify the Pre-Occipital Notch

Answer 3

Question 4

What is the Blue area of the forebrain called?

Answer 4

The Frontal Lobe

Question 5

What is the Yellow area of the forebrain called?

Answer 5

The Parietal Lobe

Question 6

What is the Pink area of the forebrain called?

Answer 6

The Occipital Lobe

Question 7

What is the Green area of the forebrain called?

Answer 7

The Temporal Lobe

Question 8

Where are the Supramarginal and Angular Gyri?

Answer 8

Sitting on the posterior and inferior side of the parietal lobe (Mc’Donald’s “M”)

Question 9

Where are the Primary and Secondary Visual Cortices?

Answer 9

In the Occiptal Lobe

Question 10

Where are the Primary Auditory Cortex and Wernicke’s area?

Answer 10

Along the superior border of the temporal lobe

Question 11

Where is the Broca’s area located?

Answer 11

Along the Posterior border of the Pre-Motor Cortex, in front of the Pre-Central Gyrus

Question 12

Where is the Exner’s Area located?

Answer 12

Along the Posterior border of the Pre-Motor Cortex, in front of the Pre-Central Gyrus and above the Broca’s Area

Question 13

Where is the Postcentral Gyrus/Primary Somatosensory Cortex?

Answer 13

On the posterior side of the Central Sulcus

Question 14

Where is the Precentral Gyrus/Primary Motor Cortex?

Answer 14

On the anterior side of the Central Sulcus

Question 15

What Connects the Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas?

Answer 15

The Arcuate Fasiculus

Question 16

What is the structure Below the Purple region?

Answer 16

The Corpus Callosum

Question 17

What is the Purple Region?

Answer 17

The Cingulate Gyrus

Question 18

What is the Sulcus between the Green and Pink Regions?

Answer 18

The Parieto-Occipital Sulcus

Question 19

What Sulcus runs through the Pink region?

Answer 19

The Calcarine Sulcus

Question 20

What area of the Occipital Lobe can be identified through looking for the Calcarine Sulcus?

Answer 20

The Primary Visual Cortex

Question 21

What is the structure below the occipital lobe?

Answer 21

The Cerebellum

Question 22

What Structuresare part of theForebrain Diencephalon?

Answer 22

The Thalamus, Hypothalamus, and Pituitary Gland

Question 23

What Structures are part of the Mid Brain?

Answer 23

The Cerebral Peduncles, Cerebral Aqueduct and the Superior and Inferior Collilculi

Question 24

What Structures are part of the Forebrain?

Answer 24

Cingulate Gyrus, Corpus Callosum, The 4 Lobes,

Question 25

What **Structures** are part of the **Hindbrain?**

Answer 25

Cerebellum, Medulla, Pons Bridge, 4th Ventricle

Question 26

Where is the **Pons?**

Answer 26

In the bulge of the brain stem and the area of brainstem behind the bulge

Question 27

Where is the **Medulla?**

Answer 27

Below the bulge of the Pons

Question 28

Where is the **Choroid Plexus**?

Answer 28

Lining the lateral ventricles

Question 29

What does the Hypothalamus look like?

Answer 29

A small triangular structure underneath the brain

Question 30

Where are the **Mamillary Bodies** located?

Answer 30

Behind the Hypothalamus at its base

Question 31

Where is the **Pituitary Gland** located?

Answer 31

Below the Hypothalamus

Question 32

Where is the **Thalamus** located?

Answer 32

Above the Hypothalamus

Question 33

Where are the **Superior** and **Inferior Colliculi** located?

Answer 33

Posterior to the 4th Ventricle, Opposite to the Midbrain

Question 34

Do Primary areas (e.g. Motor, Visual, Auditory) occur in both hemispheres of the brain?

Answer 34

Yes

Question 35

Do Secondary (Association) areas (e.g. Broca's, Wernicke's, SMAGLA) occur in both hemispheres of the brain?

Answer 35

No, only in the dominant hemisphere of the brain (Usually the left)

Question 36

What structures form the **Basal Ganglia**?

Answer 36

The Caudate Nucleus, Putamen, Globus Pallidus, Subthalmic Nucleus and Substantia Nigra

Question 37

What space surrounds the Thalamus?

Answer 37

The 3rd Ventricle

Question 38

What **Connects** the **Two Lobes** of the **Thalamus**?

Answer 38

The intermediate mass

Question 39

Identify the **Substantia Nigra**

Answer 39

Question 40

Identify the **Subthalmic Nucleus**

Answer 40

Question 41

Identify the **Globus Pallidus**

Answer 41

Question 42

Identify the **Putamen**

Answer 42

Question 43

Identify the **Caudate Nucleus**

Answer 43

Question 44

The **Caudate Nucleus** and the **Putamen** are collectively known as what?

Answer 44

The Striatum

Question 45

Identify the **Location** of the **Cerebral Peduncles**

Answer 45