cerebral hemispheres Flashcards

1
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the brain developed from the ______ composed of _______

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neural tube, neuroepithelium

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2
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embryonic brain regions

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forebrain midbrain hindbrain

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3
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forebrain derivatives

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telencephalon diencephalon

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4
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midbrain derivatives

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mesencephalon

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5
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hindbrain

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metencephalon myelencephalon

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7
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what does the telencephalon form in the child/adult brain structure

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cerebrum (includes cerebral cortex, white matter, basal nuclei)

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10
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functions of the frontal lobe

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executive functions, thinking, planning, organizing and problem solving, emotions and beavioral control, personality

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11
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functions of the parietal lobe

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perception, making sense of the world, arithmetic, spelling

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12
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function of occipital love

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vision

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13
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function of the medulla oblangata

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breathing, heart rate, respiration

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14
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–Last region in the cortex before motor information descends to lower regions of the nervous system

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primary motor cortex

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15
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_______ is the first region in the cortex to receive sensory information

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•Primary Sensory Cortex

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16
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Then sent to association areas for detailed processing

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primary sensory cortex

17
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cerebral lobe and cortical region where somatic motor happens

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precentral gyrus in the frontal lobe (M1)

18
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cerebral lobe and cortical region where somatosensation occurs

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postcentral gyrus of parietal lobe (S1)

19
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cerebral lobe and cortical region where speech/language occur

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broca’s and wernicke’s area in the LEFT side of the frontal and temporal lobes

20
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cerebral lobe and cortical region area where vision occurs

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banks of calcarine sulcus in the occipital lobe

21
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cerebral lobe and cortical region where audition happens

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transvere temporal gyri in the temporal lobe

22
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cerebral lobe and cortical region where olfaction happens

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uncus and anterior temporal lobe in the temporal region

23
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function of broca’s area and lobe its in

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  • language production
  • speaking writing singing
  • frontal lobe
24
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broca’s aphasia

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slowed, labored speech

  • agrammatism, anomia
25
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function of wernicke’s area and location

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language comprehension

  • speechm, written language, signed language
  • temporal lobe
26
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the dominant hemishphere for language processing

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left

27
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The _______ (Latin: curved bundle) is a bundle of axons that connects Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area in the brain

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arcuate fasciculus

28
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in the axonal pathway of the arcuate fasciculus, cell bodies are in the ______ and axon synapse are in the _____

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Wernicke’s area

Broca’s area

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30
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nuclei of the basal ganglia

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–Caudate nucleus

–Putamen

–Globus pallidus

–Substantia nigra

–Subthalamic nucleus

31
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Tonotopic organization

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Both hemispheres process auditory information from each ear!

32
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3 parts of the telencephalon

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  • cerebral cortex
  • white matter fiber systems
  • basal ganglia
33
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Thin, outer covering demarcated by gyri, sulci & fissures

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–Cerebral cortex

34
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What blood vessel supplies the leg region of the precentral gyrus on the right?

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–Right ACA

35
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What blood vessel supplies Wernicke’s area on the left?

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–Left MCA

36
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What blood vessel supplies the primary visual cortex on the right?

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–Right PCA