Chapter 2 - Nervous system

Question 1

Gyrus

Answer 1

top of the cavern

Question 2

Sulcus

Answer 2

cavern

Question 3

Fissure

Answer 3

deeper cavern in the middle

Question 4

What connects the two cerebral hemispheres? what does it do?

Answer 4

corpus callosum - realys information

Question 5

Who is Franz Gall

Answer 5

Phrenology (Franzology)

bumps on head = personality traits (WRONG)

brain is divided into regions (CORRECT)

larger the region the more important (SORT OF CORRECT)

studpid dum dum

Question 6

Frontal Lobe

Answer 6

moving and coordination
-short term memory
-planning
- motor control

Question 7

Temporal lobe

Answer 7

hearing
- controls senses
- language
- memory

Question 8

Occipital lobe

Answer 8

seeing
visual processing

Question 9

cerebellum

Answer 9

motor function

Question 10

Meninges (3)

Answer 10

dura matter - tough and flexi
Arachnoid - cerebrospinal
Pia matter - saran wrap

Question 11

Ventricles

Answer 11

The blue part is the ventricles that secrets cerebral spinal fluid

empty space that flows down into spinal cord

Question 12

Choroid plexus

Answer 12

produces and absorbes cerbrospinal fluid

Question 13

what happens if there is an over production of cerebrospinal fluid

Answer 13

called HYDROcephalus

put pressure on the brain and can cause damage

Question 14

Blood Brain Barrier BBB

Answer 14

regulation of blood that carries oxygen

Question 15

Ischemic Stroke

Answer 15

BLOCKS BLOOD (clot)

pertaining to the stoppage of blood

Question 16

Hemorragic stroke

Answer 16

BRAIN BLEED

pertaining to the rapid flow of blood

Question 17

Brainstem

Answer 17

responsible for most of our uncoscious behaviors

Three regions
-diencephalon
-midbrain
-hindbrain

Question 18

Brainstem: Pons (hindbrain)

Answer 18

Pons = “bridge”

processing in sleep

Question 19

Brainstem: reticular formation (hindbrain)

Answer 19

inside the Pons

send signals to make you wake up

Question 20

Brainstem: Cerebellum (hindbrain)

Answer 20

motor function
balance

Question 21

Brainstem: Medulla (hindbrain)

Answer 21

heartbeat control

Question 22

Brainstem: Tectum (midbrain)

Answer 22

Superior Colliculus - what?/visual

Inferior Colliculus - where?/auditory

Question 23

Brainstem: Tegumentum (midbrain)

Answer 23

arousal
self-conciousness

Question 24

Brainstem: Substantia Nigra (midbrain)

Answer 24

movement (parkinsons disease)

Question 25

Brainstem: Periqueductal Gray matter (midbrain)

Answer 25

pain perception

Question 26

Brainstem: Thalamus (Diencephalon)

Answer 26

Seonsory HUb/relay center

Question 27

Brainstem: Hypothalamus (Diencephalon)

Answer 27

tells pitutary what hormones to release

Question 28

Brainstem: Pituitary gland (Diencephalon)

Answer 28

releases hormones into the blood stream

Question 29

Limbic System / Subcortical structures / (FOREBRAIN)

Answer 29

Basal ganglia - coordination

amygdala - fear & anger

hippocampus - long term memories

hypothalamus (brainstem) - hormones

Question 30

Neocortex (touch)

Answer 30

2 areas of the frontal lobe

motor (anterior) and sensory (posterior)

recive and send information
higher level of cognition

Question 31

Flynn effect

Answer 31

We are getting smarter esspicially at turn of the centry

Neuroplasticity: we arent getting more neurons. it how they are connecting

Question 32

Exaptation

Answer 32

When are brain region takes on the role/task of another

Question 33

Human Connectome Project

Answer 33

patterns, pathways, and connections that make humans so smart

NEUROPLASTICITY