Ch4 Neurostatics

Question 1

Reticular substance

Answer 1

Brain matter with “disorderly” orientation of neurons, as apposed to neurons where all axons point the same direction.

Question 2

What ate the three major tissue types in the brain?

Answer 2

Nuclei
Tracts
Reticular

Question 3

With regards to dorsal and caudal, how are sensory and motor processes generally related spacially?

Answer 3

Sensory processes tend to be more dorsal while motor processes tend to be more caudal

Question 4

How are emotional (visceral) and somatic processes spacially related in the nervous system?

Answer 4

Emotional (visceral) systems tend to be more medial, where as somatic systems tend to be more lateral

Question 5

How do the hypothalamus and thalamus relate with regards to somatic and visceral processing?

Answer 5

Hypothalamus, more visceral

Thalamus, more somatic

Question 6

What are the three sections in the triune brain concept?

Answer 6

The basil ganglia (reptilian brain)
The limbic system (old mammalian brain)
The neocortex (neomammalian brain)

Question 7

What are the primary parts of the basil ganglia?

Answer 7

What do the:
Caudate nucleus 
Globes paladus 
Nucleus accumbens
Entopeduncular nucleus
VTA
Substantia nigra
  Make up?

Question 8

What are the primary parts of the lymbic system?

Answer 8

What do the:
Amygdala,
Hippocampus, 
Septal and preoptic areas,
Hypothalamus,
And central gray make up?

Question 9

What function does the flow of info through the striatal-thalamic-cortical loops serve?

Answer 9

What brain circuit sequences the component parts of behaviors to produce desired outcomes?