Introduction to Gross Brain Laboratory and Spinal Cord Exercise Flashcards
The somatosensory cortex is _________ to the Rolandic fissure. It is also called the ____________.
posterior; postcentral gyrus
The somatotopic area of the wrist is _________ to the area of the hand.
medial
The area where the motor-neuron axons cross is called the ____________.
decussation
The cingulate gyrus is immediately superior to the _____________.
corpus callosum
Superior to the cingulate gyrus is the ____________.
cingulate sulcus
The motor neuron axons are wrapped in a structure called the ___________.
internal capsule
The corticospinal pathway is also called the ___________.
pyramidal tract
The caudate and putamen together are called the ___________.
striatum
The corticospinal tract splits the ___________ into the medial caudate and lateral putamen.
ganglionic eminence
The internal capsule has a bend in ___________ slices.
axial
The corticospinal tracts are on the _________ surface of the medulla.
ventral (these form the “eyes” in Dr. Ojemann’s mnemonic)
Motor neurons from the corticospinal tract synapse on ___________.
alpha motor neurons – which reside in the spinal cord and send axons into the periphery
The intermediolateral cell column (aka lateral grey column) in the spinal cord contains ____________.
sympathetic neurons
Hyperreflexia is caused by __________ damage.
upper motor neuron
What is spasticity?
Inability of muscle cells to relax
What are fasciculations?
Individual motor units contracting, leading to noticeable rippling of muscle fibers
Paresis is ____________.
weakness (as opposed to plegia, which means total loss of control)
The ___________ contains all of the sensory axons from the lower extremity.
fasciculus gracilis
The ____________ contains all of the sensory axons from the upper extremity.
fasciculus cuneatus
The fasciculus cuneatus is _________ to the fasciculus gracilis.
lateral
Pain-sensing neurons synapse on a fasciculus in the spinal cord called the __________.
Lissauer’s fasciculus
What is the division of the two hemispheres called?
The interhemispheric fissure
The insula is within the __________.
Sylvian fissure
What is between the paracentral lobule and the precuneus?
The cingulate sulcus