Central Nervous System Flashcards
What is a pathway, tract or commissure in the CNS?
No nerves in the CNS –
a group of axons travelling together is called a pathway, tract or commissure
What are nuclei in the CNS?
Cell bodies of neurons of similar functions often cluster together – in the CNS these clusters are called nuclei
(in the PNS they are called ganglia)
What are the parts of the brain before we are born?
What develops from the Forebrain?
Cerebrum, Lobes
Thalamus, Hypothalamus
What is included in the brainstem?
Medulla Oblongata
Pons
Midbrain
What develops from the Hindbrain?
- Cerebellum
- Pons
- Medulla Oblongata
What are the parts of The Cerebrum?
3
- Cerebral cortex -> superficial, grey matter, mostly cell bodies
- White matter -> deep, tracts of myelinated axons
- Subcortical nuclei -> grey matter, deep to white matter
Left and right cerebral hemispheres
Cerebrum
What is the Corpus Callosum?
Massive bundle of axons that connects the left and right hemispheres allowing communication
Cerebrum
What is The Cerebral Cortex?
4
- Site of complex integration of information
- Folding of the cerebral cortex increases its surface area
- Gyri/folds (s. gyrus) and sulci (s. sulcus)
- Lobes: frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal
- perception, skilled movements reasoning, learning and memory
Cerebrum
What are Gyri?
(folds)
gyri allows higher order reasoning and complex decision making
Cerebrum
What are the Lobes of the Brain?
frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal
Cerebrum
What is the Subcortical Nuclei?
- Deep within the cerebral hemispheres
- Grey matter
- Important for controlling movement and posture and complex aspects of behaviour
Cerebrum
What is the Limbic System? (4)
What makes it up? (4)
- Functional system containing both grey + white matter
- Frontal lobe + temporal lobe + thalamus + hypothalamus + the pathways that connect them
- Learning, emotional experience and behaviour
- Visceral and endocrine functioning
What makes up The Diencephalon?
- Thalamus
- Hypothalamus
- Epithalamus