Cerebellum & 4th ventricle

Question 1

What is the cerebellum involved in?

Answer 1

Coordination of movement

balance

Question 2

What is the name of the midline of the cerebellum that joints the ovoid hemispheres together?

Answer 2

Vermis

Question 3

What does the over layer of the vermis consist of?

Answer 3

Grey matter

Question 4

What does the inner core of the vermis consist of?

Answer 4

White matter with deep nuclei

Question 5

What is the name of the transverse curving fissure which give the cerebellum their individual ridges?

Answer 5

Folia

Question 6

What are folia on the cerebellum?

Answer 6

Transverse curving fissures which give the cerebellum their individual ridges

Question 7

Where does the cerebral aqueduct run?

Answer 7

Through the midbrain

Question 8

What does the cerebral aqueduct connect?

Answer 8

The 3rd and 4th ventricle

Question 9

Where are the substantia nigra located?

Answer 9

on each of the cerebral peduncles

Question 10

loss of substantial nigra = in what disease?

Answer 10

Parkinson

Question 11

What is the substantia nigra?

Answer 11

black band of nerve cells in the tegmentual area

Question 12

What is the red nucleus?

Answer 12

circular mass of grey area located in the tegmentum next to the substantia nigra

Question 13

What are the tonsil in the brain?

Answer 13

prominent red swelling of the cerbellar cortex located on either side of the vermis

Question 14

What is the flocculus?

Answer 14

ovoid in shape with crinkled edge

lie posterior to the lateral foramen of 4th ventricle

Question 15

What is the nodule located in the cerebellum?

Answer 15

continuation of the flocculus

Question 16

What is the flocculo-nodular lobe concerned with

Answer 16

vestibular information from the ear

Question 17

What is the name of the largest deep cerebellar nuclei?

Answer 17

Dentate nucleus

Question 18

What is the dentate nucleus important in?

Answer 18

Planning, initiating and control of movement

Question 19

What is the rhomboid fossa?

Answer 19

diamond shaped floor of the 4th ventricle

Question 20

What are the names of the 2 tubercles located on the dorsal column nuceli?

Answer 20

Gracile and cuneate

Question 21

What does the median sulcus divide?

Answer 21

The rhomboid fossa into left and right halves

Question 22

What lie in the floor of the 4th ventricle?

Answer 22

Nuclei of the lower cranial nerves

Question 23

What is the obex?

Answer 23

Inferior apex of the rhomboid fossa

Question 24

What is the area postrema associated with?

Answer 24

Nausea control

Question 25

What does the area postrema lack?

Answer 25

a blood brain barrier

Question 26

What will injury to the cerebellum cause?

Answer 26

Loss of coordination (NOT MOVEMENT)

Question 27

What does the outer grey matter contain?

Answer 27

nuclei and ganglia (cell bodies)

Question 28

What does the inner white matter contain?

Answer 28

axons

Question 29

What does the superior cerebellar peduncle do?

Answer 29

Rely information back to the midbrain

Question 30

What does the middle cerebellar peduncle do?

Answer 30

information from the cerebellar to the pon

Question 31

What does the inferior cerebellar peduncles do?

Answer 31

Connects the cerebellum to the medulla

Question 32

what is the job of the corpus callosum?

Answer 32

communicating between the 2 hemispheres

Question 33

What is the posterior end of the corpus callosum called?

Answer 33

splenium

Question 34

What is the job of the splenium?

Answer 34

Part of the visual pathway

Question 35

What does the diancepalon contain?

Answer 35

The thalamus and hypothalamus

Question 36

What is located between the 2 halves of the diancephalon?

Answer 36

the 3rd ventricle

Question 37

What is the job of the intraventricular foramen?

Answer 37

permits CSF flow from the lateral ventricles to the 3rd ventricle

Question 38

What does the 4th ventricle continue with?

Answer 38

the spinal cord

Question 39

Which parimary cortex and a 2x thicker grey matter?

Answer 39

The priamry motor cortex

Question 40

What are the names of the 2 primary cortexes in the brain?

Answer 40

The primary visual cortex | the primary somatosensory cortex

Question 41

Where does the central sulcus run?

Answer 41

The midpoint of the hemispheres to the medial surface

Question 42

What shape does the paracentral cortex form?

Answer 42

U shape

Question 43

What sulcus runs above the corpus callosum?

Answer 43

The cingulate sulcus

Question 44

What does the cingulate sulcus seperate?

Answer 44

the cingulate gyrus

Question 45

Whta cortex lies in the wall of the calcarine sulcus

Answer 45

the primary visual cortex

Question 46

What is the fornix?

Answer 46

bundle of white matter beneath the corpus callosum

Question 47

What does the fornix connect?

Answer 47

the hippocampus to the opposite hemispheres

Question 48

What forms the dorsal part of the diencephalon

Answer 48

the thalamus

Question 49

What forms the ventral part of the diencephalon

Answer 49

the hypothalamus

Question 50

What info does the medial geniculate body relay?

Answer 50

Auditory information

Question 51

What info does the lateral geniculate body relay?

Answer 51

visual information