Harder Brain Anatomy

Question 1

Largest component of basal ganglia

Answer 1

Putamen

Question 2

Longest component of basal ganglia

Answer 2

Caudate Nucleus

Question 3

Internal Capsule Role

Answer 3

Transmission of info from cortex to forebrain, brainstem, and spinal cord

Question 4

Rostral end of third ventricle

Answer 4

Lamina terminalis

Question 5

Bundle of olfactory and temporal nerve fibers, anterior end of diencephalon

Answer 5

Anterior commissure

Question 6

Posterior limit of diencephalon

Answer 6

Posterior commissure

Question 7

Stria terminalis

Answer 7

Fiber bundle from amygdala to hypothalamus

Question 8

Fornix

Answer 8

Fiber bundle from hippocampus to hypothalamus

Question 9

Lateral border of putamen

Answer 9

External capsule

Question 10

Ordered meninges from outermost to innermost

Answer 10

Dura Mater, Arachnoid Mater, Pia Mater

Question 11

Choroid plexus

Answer 11

produces CSF

Question 12

Bottom structures of temporal lobe from lateral to medial

Answer 12

Occipitotemporal gyrus, collateral sulcus, Parahippocampal gyrus

Question 13

Amygdala and hippocampus located in which lobe

Answer 13

Temporal lobe

Question 14

Superior cerebral peduncle attaches where

Answer 14

Pons

Question 15

Inferior cerebral peduncle attaches where

Answer 15

Medulla

Question 15

Middle cerebral peduncle attaches where

Answer 15

Pons

Question 16

Vermis

Answer 16

Midline of cerebellum

Question 17

Largest lobe of cerebellum

Answer 17

Posterior

Question 18

Smallest lobe of cerebellum

Answer 18

Flocculonodular

Question 19

Input to flocculonodular lobe of cerebellum

Answer 19

Vestibular

Question 20

Input to anterior lobe of cerebellum

Answer 20

Spinal cord

Question 21

Input to posterior lobe of cerebellum

Answer 21

Cortical

Question 22

Role of superior colliculus

Answer 22

Visual processing

Question 23

Role of inferior colliculus

Answer 23

Auditory processing

Question 24

Boundaries of fourth ventricle

Answer 24

Pons, Medulla, Superior Cerebral Peduncle, Superior Medullary Velum

Question 25

Obex

Answer 25

where fourth ventricle empties into central canal

Question 26

Central canal

Answer 26

Canal of CSF that leads through spinal cord

Question 27

Open medulla

Answer 27

Medulla that contains fourth ventricle

Question 28

Closed medulla

Answer 28

Medulla that contains central canal

Question 29

Location of gracile and cuneate tubercles

Answer 29

Medulla

Question 30

Crus cerebri

Answer 30

Fiber bundle that communicates motor pathway signals from the cerebral cortex through the midbrain to the brainstem and spinal cord

Question 31

Tegmentum

Answer 31

hidden dorsal half of pons

Question 32

Basilar pons

Answer 32

Anterior bulge of pons

Question 33

Pyramid

Answer 33

Bulge in medulla, pathway for motor regulating axons originating in the cortex passing through the internal capsule to the spinal cord

Question 34

Corticospinal tract

Answer 34

dorsolateral pathway of pyramid neurons across pyramidal decussation

Question 35

Inferior olivary nucleus

Answer 35

Nucleus in medulla, brainstem + spinal cord to cerebellum pathway

Question 36

Olive

Answer 36

Lateral the pyramid, pathway starting from inferior olivary nucleus