Dr. Houston (Neuro)-Exam 3 Flashcards
What are the subdivisions of the nervouse system?
What are the different horns and roots of the spinal cord? What horn is special and why?
Lateral horn – serves SNS. Only in thoracolumbar spinal cord
What are descending and ascending tracts?
What are each track for:
* Lateral corticospinal
* Dorsal columns
* Lateral spinothalamic
* Ventral spinothalamic
- Lateral corticospinal: motor
- Dorsal columns: Fine touch, propioception, vibration
- Lateral spinothalamic: pain and temperture
- Ventral spinothalamic: light touch
What is the diencephalon?
the thalamus, hypothalamus, and epithalamus
What connects L + R hemispheres?
What makes up the epithalamus?
- Corpus callosum
- Habenula and pineal gland
What are the different ventricles?
What are the layers of the meningeal layers
Where is white vs gray matter in the brain??
What is the directions of the commissural, association and projection tracts?
- Commissural: Left to right to different hemispheres
- Association: Anterior to posterior-> different lobes
- Projection tracts: superior to inferior
Tracks=nerves-
How many different layers are there in the brain?
6
What do astrocytes, ependymal cells, microglia, oligodendrocytes do?
- What are the motor and sensory parts of the brain?
- What and where are the broca and wernicke’s area
What are the different components of the spinal cord?
What are the different layers of a nerve?
What is the process of nerve impulse?
What are the different components of neuron?
What is the cervical plexus?
What is the brachial plexus?
What is the lumbar plexus?
What is the lumbosacral plexus?