FOUNDATIONS: STRUCTURE OF NERVOUS SYSTEM Flashcards

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What is a subdural hematoma?

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A collection of blood in between the dura and arachnoid mater from ruptured blood vessels passing through the dura. This can compress parts of CNS and is treated by drilling a hole in skull to drain blood

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Where are motor neuron cell bodies located?

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Ventral root horn

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3
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Where are sensory root cell bodies located?

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In the dorsal root ganglion

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4
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What does the diencephalon contain?

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The thalamus, hypothalamus, pituitary gland and pineal gland

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What is the cerebral cortex and what are its functions?

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The outermost sheet of neural tissue (functions in sensory perception, motor control, cognition)

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What is the basal ganglia?

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4 internal nuclei that form feedback circuits with the cerebral cortex- critical in motor control, behaviour switching, learning, reward

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What is the limbic system and what structures does it contain?

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Collection of nuclei grouped for their location rather than a function (limbus means border).
- Contains hippocampus (memory), amygdala (emotional valence and importance of stimuli-reward/fear)

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Is there a space between the dura and arachnoid mater OR between the arachnoid mater and pia mater?

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Arachnoid and pia mater!! This is the sub arachnoid space and contains CSF.

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What is abundant in pia mater?

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BLOOD VESSELS

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10
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What do the ventricles do?

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Carry metabolic waste from brain back to bloodstream

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How many ventricles are there in the brain and what are the names of them?

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There are 4 ventricles; 2 lateral ventricles, a third ventricle and a fourth ventricle (base of brain)

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What is the function of the blood-brain barrier?

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Restricting entry of macro molecules into the brain (shields brain from abnormal variations in ionic composition and potentially toxic molecules (drugs, ingested poisons)

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What does is the blood brain barrier a result of?

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Tight junctions between endothelial cells and capillaries

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14
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Which types of neurons regulate blood flow?

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Astrocytes

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Which structures separate blood flow between the body and brain?

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Blood brain barrier and circle of willus

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What is the function of the circle of willus?

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Maintains blood flow (also with blood flow maintenance regulating pressure, concentration (CO2 O2) and pH)

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17
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What does the anterior cerebral artery supply?

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The forebrain–> medial portions of the frontal lobes and superior medial parietal lobe

18
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What does the middle cerebral artery supply?

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Lateral cortex, anterior temporal lobes, insula.

19
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What is an occlusion in neuroscience?

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A blockage of a blood vessel

20
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What is aphasia?

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The inability to comprehend or speak language

21
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What is segregation?

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Spatial separation

22
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What are clusters of brain regions known as?

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Modules

23
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What is functional integration?

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Modules may be spatially separated, but they are functionally integrated

24
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What does the cell-attached method of intracellular recording do?

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  • micropipette tip sealed onto the membrane

- Record single channels under patch of membrane without disrupting cytoplasm

25
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What does the inside out and outside out method of intracellular recordings involve?

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  • Allows the study of single channels in isolated portions of the membrane
  • Studies how changes on intracellular or extracellular surface of membrane alter ion channel function
    (sucks a portion of membrane up -cleaves it from membrane)
26
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What does the whole cell method of intracellular recordings work?

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Records currents from multiple channels at once - Micropipette and cytoplasm are continuous

(sucks up either ends of membrane)

27
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Which of the following processes dictate the amount of neurotransmitter released from a nerve ending on a short-term, MINUTE TO MINUTE, basis?

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  • Vescicle recycling in the nerve ending (recylcing may or may not involve fusion with the endosome)
  • Calcium availability
  • Neurotransmitter synthesis
28
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Which processes are good on the LONG TERM basis in neurons?

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Axoplasmic transport and vesicle synthesis in the cell soma

29
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What is the major motor protein in RETROGRADE transport?

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Dynein (slower transport)

30
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If you are bitten by a dog with rabies, what happens?

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The rabies virus travels retrogradedly back along the motor neurons–>spinal cord–> brain and then kills neurons- also affects other neurons because they are all interconnected

31
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What does the axon terminal contain?

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  • Internal vesicles containing neurotransmitter
  • protein dense
  • ## lots of mitochondria
32
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What does the axon terminal NOT contain?

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  • NO MICROTUBULES
33
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What are neurites?

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  • Extensions from the cell body

dendrites and axons

34
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Do microtubules and microfilaments change shape in dendrites and axons?

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Their length is relatively stable however in mature neurons microtubules and microfilaments are dynamic so you can retract old ones and extend new ones (axons/dendrites)

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What are mircotubules?

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Longditudinally down neurites (axons and dendrites)

- Mediate intracellular transport

36
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What do MAPs (microtubule-associated proteins) do?

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Regulate microtubules assembly and function

- Help implicated in ALzhimers disease (tau acculmulates and could make microtubules tangle)

37
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What are neurofilaments?

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Provide strucutral support

- Regulate diameter of axons

38
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What are microfilaments composed of ?

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Actin molecules

- Linked to microtubules and membrane

39
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What does the fact that dendrites have ribosomes under spines suggest?

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  • Info received at the synapse can control protein synthesis
  • Could be mechanism underlying memory
40
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What constrains a neurons function?

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Its dendritic arbour (tree)

41
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What are golgi type one neurons?

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(projection neurons) - have long axons that extend from one part of the brain to the other e.g. pyramidal cells

42
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What are golgi type II neurons?

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Neurons that have short axons that do not extend beyond vicinity of the cell body (local circuit neurons)