Intro to Nervous System Flashcards

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Anatomical Subdivisions

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  • CNS
    • brain
    • spinal cord
  • PNS
    • cranial nerves
    • spinal nerves
    • autonomic nerves
    • ganglia
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Meninges

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Potential Spaces

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Meninges

  1. Dura mater
    • tough outer layer
    • own blood supply with meningeal arteries
  2. Arachnoid mater
  3. Pia mater

Spaces

  1. Epidural space ⇒ potential space between dura and skull
  2. Subdural space ⇒ potential space between dura and arachnoid
  3. Subarachnoid ⇒ normally present
    • contains CSF
    • contains cerebral arteries and veins before they penetrate brain
      • held against pia by arachnoid trabeculae
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Intracranial Hemorrhages

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Source of blood:

  1. Meningeal artery
    • epidural hematoma
  2. Dural venous sinus
    • subdural
    • epidural
  3. Vein at attachment to sinus
    • subdural
  4. Cerebral artery or vein
    • subarachnoid
    • intraparenchymal
    • intraventricular
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Venous Sinuses

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  • Contained within dura mater
  • Drains the brain
  • CSFarachnoid villi ⇒ venous subarachnoid space ⇒ venous sinus
  • Major venous sinuses to know:
    • superior sagittal sinus
    • inferior sagittal sinus
    • transverse sinus
    • straight sinus
    • sigmoid sinus
  • Drains into the internal jugular vein
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Dural Septa

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  • Folds of dura mater
  • Firmly attached to cranium
  • Increased intracranial pressure can cause brain herniation into other dural reflections

Major dural partitions to know:

Falx cerebri

Tentorium cerebelli

Falx cerebelli

Diaphragma sellae

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Subdivisions of the CNS

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Limbic System

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  • Includes:
    • limbic lobe
      • cingulate gyrus
      • parahippocampal gyrus
    • hippocampal formation
    • amygdala
    • several nuclei of thalamus and hypothalamus
  • Functions:
    • emotions
    • memory
    • appetitive drives
    • autonomic and neuroendocrine control
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Cortical Functions

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  • Prefrontal cortex
    • planning, judgement, decision making, working memory
    • lesions cause defects as above and personality change
  • Premotor and supplementary motor
    • rostral to primary cortex
    • lesion ⇒ motor deficits (apraxia)
  • Primary motor cortex
    • within precentral gyrus
    • Unilateral lesion ⇒ contralateral motor deficits
  • Primary somatosensory cortex
    • within postcentral gyrus
    • unilateral lesion ⇒ contralateral sensory deficits
  • Posterior partietal cortex
    • spatial orientation and sensory integration
    • right sided non-dominant lesion ⇒ left hemi-neglect
  • Visual cortex
    • within occipital lobe
    • unilateral lesion ⇒ contralateral visual field deficit
  • Temporal lobe
    • integrates complex auditory and visual information
    • lesion ⇒ complex deficits (e.g. object/face recognition)
  • Auditory cortex
    • within transverse gyri of superior temporal gyrus
  • Broca’s area
    • motor speech
    • lesion ⇒ motor aphasia
  • Wernicke’s area
    • language comprehension of language
    • lesion ⇒ sensory aphasia
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Somatotopy

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The somatotopic organization of the primary somatosensory and motor cortices.

Describes the neurological tracts associated with movement and sensation.

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C-shaped structures

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CSF Flow

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CSF produced by choroid plexus in ventricles

⇒ 2 lateral ventricles

⇒ 2 interventricular foramen (of Monro)

⇒ 3rd ventricle

cerebral aqueduct (of Sylvius)

⇒ 4th ventricle

median aperature (foramen of Magendie) & lateral apertures (foramina of Luschka)

⇒ subarachnoid space

⇒ upward around brain and downward around spinal cord

⇒ arachnoid granulations (or villi)

⇒ superior sagittal sinus

⇒ venous system

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Hydrocephalus

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  • Distension of the ventricles caused by occlusion or obstruction of CSF flow.
  • CSF blockage will result in damage of adjacent structures due to pressure.
  • Symptoms will suggest the location.
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Cerebral Aquaduct Stenosis

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Brain and Spinal Cord

Vasculature

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  • Internal carotid arteries ⇒ anterior circulation​
    • middle cerebral artery
    • anterior cerebral artery
      • pericallosal
      • callosomarginal
      • anterior communicating
    • anterior choroidal artery
    • posterior communicating artery
    • opthalmic artery
  • Vertebral arteries ⇒ posterior circulation
    • basilar artery
      • anterior inferior cerebellar artery
      • superior cerebellar artery
      • posterior cerebral artery
    • posterior inferior cerebellar artery
    • posterior spinal artery
    • anterior spinal artery
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Brain

Blood Supply

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  • Anterior cerebral artery (ACA)
    • Supplies medial surface of parietal and frontal cortex
      • Including leg region of primary motor cortex and primary somatosensory cortex
  • Posterior cerebral artery (PCA)
    • Supplies medial and inferior surface of occipital lobe and temporal lobe
    • Including visual cortex and hippocampus
  • Middle Cerebral Artery (MCA)
    • Enters lateral sulcus and branches into superior and inferior division branches
    • Supplies lateral surface of the frontal, parietal, and temporal cortices
      • Trunk, arm, and face region of primary motor cortex and primary somatosensory cortex
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Sympathetic vs Parasympathetic

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  • Sympathetic
    • cholinergic preganglionic neurons
      • located in intermediolateral nucleus of T1-L2
    • postganglionic neurons noradrenergic
      • except Ach sweat glands
  • Parasympathetic
    • cholinergic preganglionic and postganglionic neurons
    • preganglionic neurons in spinal cored at S2-S4 and brain stem
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T1 vs T2

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Prefrontal Cortex

Functions

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  1. Foresight
  2. Personality
  3. Insight
  4. Judgement
  5. Working Memory
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Primary Motor Cortex

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Located within the precentral gyrus.

Involved in the control of voluntary movements.

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Premotor & Supplementary Motor

Areas

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Involved in preparation and initiation of voluntary movements.

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Broca’s Area

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In the dominant side is involved in production of written and spoken language.

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Primary Somatosensory Cortex

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Located within the postcentral gyrus.

Processes somatosensory information.

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Posterior Parietal

Association Cortex

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Located within superior parietal lobule.

Involved with spatial orientation and complex sensory integration.

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Wernicke’s Area

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Inferior parietal lobule and caudal portions of temporal lobe.

In dominant lobe is involved in comprehension of language.

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Primary Auditory Cortex
Located within the superior temporal gyrus.
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Temporal Lobe
* Medial surface contains: * uncus * parahippocampal gyrus * amygdala * hippocampus * Major functions: * memory * emotion * color perception * face and object recognition
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Occipital Lobe
* Cuneus and lingual gyrus * Seperated by calcarine sulcus * Major funciton: * processing of visual information
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Amygdala
Lies beneath the uncus within temporal lobe. Involved in emotions.
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Hippocampus
Lies beneath the amgydala. Involved in memory formation.