Gross Brain and Brainstem

Question 1

Where is the primary motor cortex contained in the brain?

Answer 1

Precentral frontal gyrus

Question 2

What gyrus contains Broca’s area?

Answer 2

Inferior frontal gyrus

Question 3

What is the action of the premotor and supplementary motor areas of the frontal lobe?

Answer 3

Planning and initiating voluntary movements

Question 4

Which hemisphere contains Broca’s area?

Answer 4

Left

Question 5

What is the action of Broca’s area?

Answer 5

Motor aspects of written and spoken language (handwriting, texting)

Question 6

What is the action of the prefrontal cortex?

Answer 6

Executive functions: personality, decision making, insight, foresight

Question 7

Where is the primary somatosensory cortex located?

Answer 7

Postcentral parietal gyrus

Question 8

What is the primary somatosensory cortex responsible for?

Answer 8

Processing tactile and propioceptive information, sensory localization

Question 9

What part of the parietal lobe is involved in language comprehension?

Answer 9

Inferior parietal lobule

Question 10

What is the action of Wernicke’s area?

Answer 10

Language comprehension

Question 11

Where is Wernicke’s area located?

Answer 11

Superior temporal gyrus (posterior portion)

(and some of inferior parietal lobule)

Question 12

Which hemisphere usually contains Wernicke’s area?

Answer 12

Left

Question 13

Where is the primary auditory cortex located?

Answer 13

Superior Temporal gyrus

Question 14

Between what 2 sulci is the Cuneus of the occipital lobe located between?

Answer 14

Parietooccipital sulcus

Calcarine sulcus

Question 15

What gyri make up the limbic structures of the brain?

Answer 15

Cingulate gyrus

Parahippocampal gyrus

Question 16

What limbic structure is located beneath the uncus of the temporal lobe?

Answer 16

Amygdala

Question 17

What actions/responses is the limbic lobe responsible for?

Answer 17

Emotional response

Drive-related behavior

Memory

Question 18

What part of the cerebral cortex is responsible for taste?

Answer 18

Insula

Question 19

What white matter structure connects cortical areas within the same sulci/gyri?

Answer 19

Arcuate fibers

Question 20

What white matter structures connect cortical areas within the same hemisphere?

Answer 20

Longitudinal/Association fasciculi

Question 21

What white matter structure connects cortical areas within R/L hemispheres?

Answer 21

Commissural tracts

Question 22

What white matter structure connects cortical areas within other body regions?

Answer 22

Projection tracts

Question 23

The anterior commissure is contained within what structure in the brain? Connects what lobes?

Answer 23

Corpus callosum

Temporal Lobe

Question 24

All sensory information (except olfactory) is relayed through what structure?

Answer 24

Thalamus

Question 25

What structure does the thalamus relay almost all information to?

Answer 25

Cerebral cortex

Question 26

Damage to what structure will cause abnormalities in equilibrium, posture, coordination of voluntary movements?

Answer 26

Cerebellum

Question 27

What are the ridges of the cerebellum called?

Answer 27

Folia

Question 28

What meninges is the filum terminale continuous with?

Answer 28

Pia mater

Question 29

What are the 2 locations where the spinal cord increases in diameter?

Answer 29

Cervical Lumbosacral

Question 30

What does Lissauer's tract transmit?

Answer 30

Posterior rootlets to the posterior horn

Question 31

What is the structure that caps the posterior horn?

Answer 31

Substantia gelatinosa

Question 32

What SC structure contains the cell bodies of lower motor neurons?

Answer 32

Anterior horn

Question 33

What SC structure contains autonomic neurons?

Answer 33

Intermediate gray matter

Question 34

What spinal levels is Clark's nucleus specific to?

Answer 34

T1-L2

Question 35

What is the action of Clark's nucleus?

Answer 35

Sensory processing

Question 36

Lateral horn is composed of preganglionic sympathetic neurons from what spinal levels? From what structure?

Answer 36

T1-L3 from Intermediolateral cell column

Question 37

Primary afferent and lower motor neurons convey information to/from which nervous system?

Answer 37

CNS

Question 38

Where do lower motor neurons convey information?

Answer 38

CNS to skeletal muscle

Question 39

Sensory primary afferent neurons convey information to what side?

Answer 39

Ipsilateral

Question 40

What cortex is contained within the transverse temporal gyrus?

Answer 40

Primary Auditory Association Cortex