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Ventricles

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-Lateral
-Third
-Fourth
-Central Canal
-choroid plexus lives in them

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Cerebrospinal fluid

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-Choroid plexus
-Hydrocephalus
-located in between the arachnoid mater and pia mater

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Meninges

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-dura mater
-arachnoid
-pia mater

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Dura Mater

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-outermost
- dense irregular connective tissue
-carries blood from brain toward the heart

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Arachnoid Mater

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-middle and looks like webs
-CSF circulates in the space

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Pia Mater

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-innermost
-allows blood vessels to pass through and nourish brain

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cerebral aqueduct

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15mm conduit that allows CSF to flow between the 3rd and 4th ventricle

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axon

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long narrow process that projects from the cell body

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dendrites

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ticklers

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nodes of ranvier

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gaps between sections of myelin

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buttons

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endings of axon branches which release chemicals into synapses

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synapses

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gaps between adjacent neurons across which chemical signals are transmitted

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neuron cell membrane

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composed of a lipid bilayer

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multipolar

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what i think neurons look like

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unipolar

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bald neuron

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bipolar

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like a bracelet

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pseudounipolar

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a little freak

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interneurons

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short/no axon

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clusters of cell bodies in CNS

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nuclei

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clusters of cell bodies in PNS

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ganglia

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bundles of axons in CNS

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tracts

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bundles of axons in PNS

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nerves

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oligodendrocytes

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myelination in the CNS

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schwann cells

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myelination in the PNS

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microglia

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-role in cell death, synapse formation, and synapse elimination

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astroglia

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-biggest glial cells
- do lots of things

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golgi stain

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turned neurons black
first time seeing neurons even though it was just silhouette

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nissl stain

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superior burble stain

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anteretrograde tracing

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put in cell body to trace path thru axon away from cell body

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retrograde tracing

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picked up by terminal buttons and transported thru axon to the cell body

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Anterior

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towards nose

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posterior

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towards tail end

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dorsal

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towards back or top of head

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ventral

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towards chest or bottom of head

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medial

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towards midline of body

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lateral

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away from the midline

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axon hillock

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connects cell body to axon

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ribosomes

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makes protein

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golgi complex

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packages stuff for transport to the synapses

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glial cells

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cells that help neurons but arent neurons

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arms of the spinal gray matter

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dorsal horns and ventral horns

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5 neural tubes

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T, D, MES, MET, MYE, SC
T and then alpha order

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dorsal root

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sensory unipolar

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ventral root

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motor multipolar

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myelencephalon

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-medulla
-has the reticular formation (arousal, etc)

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metencephalon

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-pons
-cerebellum
-mostly sensorimotor

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mesencephalon

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-tectum & tegmentum

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tectum

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pair of inferior colliculi auditory
pair of superior colliculi visual-motor

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tegmentum

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-periaqueductal is gray matter around the cerebral aqueduct
-substantia nigra & red nucleus

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diencephalon

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-thalamus
-massa intermedia
-hypothalamus
-pituitary gland

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telencephalon

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-cerebral cortex
-hippocampus

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