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Chapter 15 - Brain and Cranial Nerves Flashcards

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Meninges are similar in what structures?

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Brain and spinal cord

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Regions of the brain

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  • Cerebrum
  • Diencephalon
  • Mesencephalon
  • Cerebellum
  • Pons
  • Medulla Oblangata
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  • Outer most layer of the brain

- No epidura

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Dura Mater

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What does the dura mater form?

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Forms internal periosteum of skull

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Dura mater partitions

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  • Falx cerebelli
  • Falx cerebi
  • Tentorium cerebelli
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Separates right and left cerebellar hemispheres

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Falx carebrelli

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Separates right and left cerebral hemispheres

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Falx cerebri

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Separates lobes of cerebrum from cerebellum

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Tentorium cerebelli

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  • Spidery

- Spreads over brain but doesn’t extend into grooves and depressions

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Arachnoid Mater

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  • Inner most
  • Aids in nourishing the brain
  • Attached to the surface of the brain
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Pia mater

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Spaces filled with CSF

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Ventricles

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Different kinds of ventricles in the brain

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  • 2 lateral ventricles
  • 3rd ventricle
  • 4th ventricle
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Ventricles and things that connect them

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  • 2 lateral ventricles connected by interventricular foramen to…
  • 3rd ventricles which is connected by the cerebral aqueduct to…
  • 4th ventricle connected to central canal of spinal cord
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Functions of Cerebrospinal Fluid

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  • Cushions
  • Transports nutrients, wastes, and other chemicals
  • Supports the brain
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  • Lobes located in the ventricles
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Choroid plexus

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What does the choroid plexus consist of?

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  • Ependymal cells

- Permeable capillaries

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What does the choroid plexus do?

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CSF is taken from blood by ependymal cells and pooled in ventricles

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Where does CSF move in the CNS?

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All throughout the entire CNS

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Explain the movement of CSF throughout the CNS

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  • Originates in ventricles
  • Through aperatures in the 4th ventricles to subarachnoic space
  • Throughout the central canal
  • Around subarachnoid space
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Where does the CSF get absorbed?

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Sagittal sinus

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Describe CSF being reabsorbed

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  • A large venous tube within the dura mater
  • Extends along the midline of the cerebral hemispheres
  • Arachnoid extends into sinus through ARACHNOID GRANULATIONS
  • CSF goes back to the blood
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Functions of the cerebrum

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  • Interpret sensory impulses
  • Voluntary muscular movements
  • Memory
  • Reasoning process
  • Intelligence and personality
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The two hemispheres are connected by what?

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Corpus callosum

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What are the two hemispheres separated by?

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Longitudinal fissures

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Ridges and grooves of cerebrum

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Ridges = gyri
Grooves = sulci
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What is hemisphere specialization?

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Receives sensory and generates motor information to the opposite sides of the body

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Communication between the hemispheres allowed for by _____

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Corpus callosum

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Gray matter is essentially what?

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Cell somas

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Where is the cell somas (grey matter)

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Outer regions of cerebral lobes

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Cell somas (grey matter) is centralized in masses called what?

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Basal nuclei

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30
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Myelinated axons are what?

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Cerebral white matter

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Components to cerebral white matter

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  • Commissural fibers
  • Association fibers
  • Projection fibers
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Connect corresponding gray areas on different hemispheres

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Commissural fibers

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Connect different parts of same hemisphere

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Association fibers

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Connect cerebrum to lower brain areas

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Projection fibers

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Cerebral lobes

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Frontal
Parietal
Temporal
Occipital
Insula
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Lobes are divided by what?

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Special sulci

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Three sulci that divide lobes?

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Central sulcus
Lateral sulcus
Parieto-occipital sulcus

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Separates the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe

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Central sulcus

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Separates the parietal lobe from the temporal

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Lateral sulcus

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Separates the parietal lobe from the occipital

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Parieto-occipital sulcus

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Where is the primary motor cortex?

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Anterior to central sulcus in frontal lobe

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What does the primary motor cortex do?

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  • Conscious control of skeletal muscles
  • Learned motor skills
  • Speech and eye movements
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Where is the primary sensory cortex?

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Posterior to central sulcus on parietal lobe

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In the primary sensory cortex, somatic sensory information comes from what?

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Touch, pain, pressure

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What does the primary sensory cortex monitor?

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Monitor the environment consciously

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Other sensory cortexes

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Visual cortex
Auditory cortex
Olfactory cortex
Gustatory cortex

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Location and function of visual cortex

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Occipital lobe

Sight

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Location and function of auditory cortex

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  • Temporal lobe

- Sound

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Location and function of olfactory cortex

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  • Temporal lobe

- Smell

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Location and function of Gustatory Cortex

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  • Insula and frontal lobe

- Taste

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Association areas are associated with what large motor or sensory cortexes

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  • Somatic sensory
  • Somatic motor
  • Visual
  • Auditory
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What is the prefrontal cortex?

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  • Abstract intellectual function
  • Predictions, problem solving
  • Emotional context and motivation
  • Timing and temporal relationships
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What is the removal of the prefrontal cortex?

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Pre-frontal lobotomy

54
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Regulates breathing and vocalization

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Broca’s speech center

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  • Interpretation of both written and verbal language

- Sentence structure and word linkage

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General interpretive area

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Damage of Broca’s speech center or General Interpretive Area results in what?

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Higher order integrative regions may be different between hemispheres

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Hemisphere Dominance

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Speech, writing, and general interpretive area

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Categorical hemispheres

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  • Identification of familiar objects
  • Touch and spatial analysis
  • Emotional relevance
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Representational hemisphere

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Right handed people tend to have their categorical hemispheres on the _____, and vice versa

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Masses of gray matter deep in cerebral hemisphere

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Basal Nuclei

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What does the basal nuclei do?

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Act as relay station for motor impulses starting in cerebral cortex and passing to brain stem and spinal cord

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  • In basal nuclei
  • Focuses visual attention
  • Processes unconscious visual info
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  • In basal nuclei

- Controls and adjusts muscle tone

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Lentiform nucleus

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  • In basal nuclei
  • Massive head, slender tail
  • Maintains pattern and rhythm of movement
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Caudate nucleus

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  • In basal nuclei
  • Tip of caudate tail
  • Part of limbic system
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Amygdaloid nucleus

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Components to the diencephalon

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  • Epithalamus
  • Posterior pituitary gland
  • Hypothalamus
  • Thalamus
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What is in the epithalamus?

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Pineal gland = produces melatonin

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Two major bodies of the thalamus

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  • Divided by the third ventricle

- Connected by an interthalamic adhesion

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Three major functions of the thalamus

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  • Part of the limbic system
  • Connect basal nuclei and cerebral cortex
  • Sends sensory information to proper location within cerebrum
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How does the Thalamus function as part of the limbic system?

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  • Emotional, memory, learning

- Conscious awareness of emotion

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How does the thalamus connect basal nuclei and cerebral cortex?

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  • To each other

- To other parts of the CNS

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Above and connected to the posterior pituitary gland

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Hypothalamus

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Functions of the hypothalamus

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  • SUBCONSCIOUS control of skeletal muscles
  • Coordinates autonomic nervous system
  • Connection between the endocrine and nervous system
  • Produces hormones
  • Produces BEHAVIORAL DRIVES
  • Regulates body temp
  • Controls circadian rhythms (sleep)
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  • Connects brain stem and spinal cord with higher areas

- Act as relay centers

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Mesencephalon (midbrain)

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Contain _____ that connects third and fourth ventricles

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Cerebral aqueducts

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Parts of the mesencephalon

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  • Cerebral peduncles
  • Red nucleus
  • Substantia nigra
  • Corpora quadrigemina
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  • Only connecting fibers and no nuclei
  • Motor fibers connecting the cortex to the spinal cord
  • Sensory fibers that synapse with the thalamus
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Cerebral peduncles

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  • Highly vascularized

- Connects cerebrum and cerebellum

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Red nucleus

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What does the red nucleus control?

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  • Posture

- Reflexes

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  • Controls and integrates the motor output of the basal nuclei
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Substantia nigra

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What does the substantia nigra produce?

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Dopamine (giving it a black color)

83
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Deterioration of the substantia nigra may lead to what?

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Parkinson’s disease

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Parkinson’s disease results in what?

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Loss of control of voluntary motor function

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Two components to the Corpora Quadrigemina with their meanings?

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  • Superior colliculi - Receives visual input from thalamus

- Inferior colliculi - Receives auditory input from medulla

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Rounded bulge on underside of brain stem?

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What does the pons separate?

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Midbrain from medulla

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What do the pons do?

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Relays impulses to and from medulla cerebrum

- Regulates depth of breathing

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What is the pons composed of?

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Masses of gray matter and nerve fibers

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The cerebellum has to regions separated by the ______ and connected by the ______

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  • Falx cerebelli

- Vermis

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The cerebellum is composed mostly of what?

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White matter which is called the arbor vitae

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Functions of the cerebellum

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  • Integrates sensory information about the position of body parts
  • Coordinates muscle activities
  • Maintain posture
  • Fine tunes voluntary and involuntary movements
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Where is the medulla oblongata?

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From the foramen magnum to pons

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A point of connection for several cranial nerves

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Medulla oblongata

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Oval swelling in the medulla oblangata

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Olivary nucleus

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Reflex centers in the medulla oblongata?

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  • Cardiovascular center

- Respiratory rhythmicity center

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Part of the medulla oblongata that adjusts blood flow and heart rate

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Cardiovascular center

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Basic pace of respiratory movements in the medulla oblongata

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Respiratory rhythmicity center

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Network of nerve fibers associated with islands of gray matter

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Reticular formation

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What does the reticular formation interconnect?

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Interconnects areas with fibers in all major tracts

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What does the reticular formation regulate?

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Motor activities
(Increase activities –> wakefulness)
(Decrease activity –> sleep)

102
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What is the limbic system composed of?

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Nuclei and tracts along the boarder cerebrum and diencephalon

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Parts of the limbic system in the cerebrum

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  • Limbic lobe - deep to all other lobes
  • Hippocampus - nucleus within the lobe
  • Amydaloid body - basal nucleus
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Parts of the limbic system in the diencephalon

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Thalamus - relay center

Hypothalamus - behavioral drive center

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Parts of the limbic system in the medulla

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Reticular formation - sleep and wakefulness

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Functions of the limbic system

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  • Establishes emotional states and related behavioral drives
  • Links intellectual functions of cortex to unconscious functions of lower brain
  • Facilitates memory storage
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How many cranial nerves are there?

108
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Where do the cranial nerves originate from?

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Brain stem except for the first pair

109
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Where do all the cranial nerves pass through?

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Foramina in skull

110
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  • In cranial nerves, cell bodies for motor are found where?
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Gray matter

111
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In cranial nerves, cell bodies for sensory found in ganglia where?

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Outside of the brain

112
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Three facts about why cranial nerves are messy

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  • May look disorganized in mammals
  • Are organized sequentially in fish and cephalochordates
  • This is evidenced in a fetus as well
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Facts about the olfactory nerve

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  • I
  • Sensory
  • Smell
  • Pass through cribiform plate
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Facts about optic nerve

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  • II
  • Sensory
  • Vision
  • Pass through optic foramina
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Facts about oculomotor nerve

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  • III
  • Motor
  • Move the majority of eye muscles
116
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Facts about Trochlear Nerve

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  • IV
  • Motor
  • Smallest pair
  • Superior oblique muscles of eye only
117
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Facts about trigeminal nerve

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  • V
  • Both
  • Largest
  • 3 branches
118
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Three branches of the Trigeminal nerve

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  • Eye, tear gland, skin of anterior scalp, forehead and upper eyelid
  • Upper teeth, gum, lip, mucous lining of palate, and skin of face
  • Scalp, skin of jaw, lower teeth, gum, lips, muscles of mastication
119
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Facts about Acducens muscle

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  • VI
  • Motor
  • From pons
  • Lateral rectus eye muscles only
120
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Facts about the facial nerve

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  • VII
  • Both
  • From pons
  • Sensory: taste receptors on ant. 2/3 of tongue
  • Motor: to muscles of facial expression; stimulate tear and salivary glands
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Facts about Vestibulocochlear nerve

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  • VIII
  • Sensory
  • Auditory nerve from medulla
  • Two parts
122
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Two parts of the vestibulocochlear

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  • Sensitive to changes in position of head

- Interpreted as hearing

123
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Facts about the glossopharyngeal nerve

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  • IX
  • Both
  • Sensory: form lining of pharynx, tonsils and post 1/3 of tongue
  • Motor: to wall of pharynx to help swallowing
124
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Facts about the Vagus

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  • X
  • Both
  • From medulla to chest and abdomen (innervates GUT)
  • Sensory from lining of pharynx, larynx, and esophagus and abdomen
  • Somatic motor: to muscles of larynx –> speech and swallowing
  • Autonomic motor: to heart, other smooth muscles and glands in visceral organs
125
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Functions of accessory nerves

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  • XI
  • Motor
  • 2 branches
126
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Two branches of the accessory nerve

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Cranial: from medulla to muscles of soft palate, pharynx and larynx
Spinal: sends motor fibers to trapezius and sternomastocleoid

127
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Characteristics of the hypoglossal nerve

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  • XII
  • Motor
  • From medulla to tongue
  • For speaking, chewing, and swallowing

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