Cerebellum Flashcards
What layer of grey matter contains the cell bodies of basket cells and stellate cells?
Molecular layer
What is the deepest layer of grey matter? What cells does it contain?
Granular layer
Contains granule cells and a few Golgi cells
What are the efferent fibers from the cerebellar cortex?
Purkinje fibers
Most gray matter neurons tend to be ____ and use the NT ____, except for granule cells.
Inhibitory
GABA
What nuclei are inhibited by Purkinje cells?
Cerebellar and vestibular nuclei
Which neurons are the smallest? What NT does it use?
Granule cells
Glutamate
What grey matter cells synapse with Purkinje cells? What is their action?
Stellate cells and basket cells
Inhibitory
What are the afferent neurons in the gray matter? What is their general action?
Climbing fibers and mossy fibers
Excitatory
Where do the gray matter afferents send collateral branches?
Deep cerebellar nuclei
Where do the climbing fibers arise from?
Inferior olive
What cells do the climbing fibers synapse with?
Purkinje cells
What afferent fiberrs convey information about movement errors to the cerebellum?
Climbing fibers
What afferent fibers synapse with granulocytes?
Mossy fibers
What information do the mossy fibers convey?
Somatosensory, arousal, equilibrium, cerebral cortex motor info to cerebellum
What is the function of the vestibulocerebellum?
Influence eye movement and postural ms. of head and body
What is the anatomic name of the vestibulocerebellum?
Flocculonodular lobe
What information is transmitted to the flocculonodoluar lobe? Where does it send information to?
Receives info from vestibular receptors and visual areas
Sends ouput to vestibular nuclei
What is the functional name for the vermis and paravermal region of the cerebellum?
Spinocerebellum
What part of the spinocerebellum is associated with the medial upper motor neurons?
Vermis