Directions

Question 1

Neuroaxis

Answer 1

through spinal cord up through the brain

Question 2

Superior/dorsal

Answer 2

When you get toward the spinal cord, the dorsal is toward the back, but top of brain

Question 3

Inferior/ ventral

Answer 3

Toward the “belly” or bottom of brain

Question 4

Anterior/rostral

Answer 4

Is front

Question 5

Posterior/ caudal

Answer 5

Toward the tail or back of brain

Question 6

Medial/ lateral

Answer 6

medial is toward the middle, lateral is toward the sides

Question 7

Ipsilateral

Answer 7

Same side of brain

Question 8

Contralateral

Answer 8

Opposite side of brain

Question 9

Afferent/efferent

Answer 9

Afferant is projections going toward something, efferent is going away from something.

Question 10

Brain slices: Traverse/frontal/coronal

Answer 10

If you’re looking at the brain from the front, it’s called a coronal/ frontal (cut down the middle, looking dead on, it’s traverse

Question 11

Brain slices: Horizontal

Answer 11

horizontal cut through middle

Question 12

Brain slices: Sagittal

Answer 12

If you’re looking at the side, it’s called sagittal (cut down the idle or more one side or the other)