Lab Practical 1

Question 1

Pineal body

Answer 1

Produces melatonin

Question 2

Superior colliculus

Answer 2

Controls head and eye orientation

Question 3

Inferior colliculus

Answer 3

carriers auditory information

Question 4

Frontal lobe

Answer 4

executive functioning, impulse control, reward, and motor command

Question 5

Parietal lobe

Answer 5

association information and sensory processing

Question 6

Occipital lobe

Answer 6

visual information

Question 7

Temporal lobe

Answer 7

memory and hearing

Question 8

Cerebellum

Answer 8

motor movement coordination

Question 9

Entorhinal cortex

Answer 9

part of hippocampal formation; process olfactory bulb

Question 10

Cerebral peduncle

Answer 10

communication pathway between cerebellum and the spinal cord

Question 11

Infundibulum

Answer 11

connects the pituitary gland to the hypothalamus

Question 12

Mammillary bodies

Answer 12

important for memory consolidation

Question 13

Medulla

Answer 13

control autonomic functioning

Question 14

Midbrain

Answer 14

sensory processing and hormone control

Question 15

Olfactory bulb

Answer 15

site of olfactory transduction

Question 16

Olive

Answer 16

motor coordination

Question 17

Optic chiasm

Answer 17

decussation of visual information

Question 18

Optic nerve

Answer 18

connects the eyes to the brain

Question 19

Optic tract

Answer 19

carries visual informationto processing centers

Question 20

Periamygdaloid cortex

Answer 20

olfactory coordination with limbic system

Question 21

Pons

Answer 21

helps regulate sleep and arousal

Question 22

Pyramidal tracts

Answer 22

carries comands for distal movements from the motor cortex

Question 23

Trapezoid body

Answer 23

important for auditory processing

Question 24

Ventral median fissure

Answer 24

line the divides the hemispheres along the brain stem

Question 25

Lateral ventricles

Answer 25

produces cerebrospinal fluid

Question 26

Third ventricles

Answer 26

moves csf

Question 27

Cerebral aquaduct

Answer 27

connects third and fourth ventricle

Question 28

Corpus callosum

Answer 28

axons connecting the two hemispheres

Question 29

Fornix

Answer 29

connects the hippocampus with other parts of the brain

Question 30

Thalamus

Answer 30

dorsal to hippocampus, relays information to the cortex

Question 31

Hypothalamus

Answer 31

controls autonomic nervous system, pituitary gland, and endocrine system

Question 32

Massa intermedia

Answer 32

connects the lobes of the thalamus, goes through middle of third ventricle

Question 33

Cingulate gyrus

Answer 33

receives input from the thalamus and projects to the entorhinal cortex via the cingulum

Question 34

Septum pellucidum

Answer 34

membrane seperating anterior horns of lateral ventricles

Question 35

Arbor vitae

Answer 35

cerebellar white matter that brings both sensory and motor information to and from the cerebellum

Question 36

Amygdala

Answer 36

Limbic system, emotional behavior

Question 37

Basal ganglia

Answer 37

strongly interconnected subcortical nuclei controls voluntary motor movements, procedural learning, routin behaviors

Question 38

Striatum (part of the basal ganglia)

Answer 38

caudate and putamen

Question 39

Caudate

Answer 39

involved in reward system

Question 40

Putamen

Answer 40

regulates movement and types of learning

Question 41

Globus pallidus (part of the basal ganglia)

Answer 41

regulates motor movement

Question 42

External capsule

Answer 42

carry corticocorical association fibers

Question 43

Hippocampus

Answer 43

memory consolidation and certain aspects of spatial memory

Question 44

Internal capsule

Answer 44

ascending and descending tracts

Question 45

Thalamic nuclei

Answer 45

Lateral geniculate body, medial geniculate body, and ventral thalamic nuclei

Question 46

Lateral geniculate nuclei

Answer 46

receives input from retina and sends to occipital lobe

Question 47

Medial geniculate nuclei

Answer 47

part of thalamus, receives input from inner ear to primary auditory cortex in temporal lobe

Question 48

Ventral thalamic nuclei

Answer 48

composed of several distinct nuclei which modify signals from surrounding nuclei and cerebellum

Question 49

Corona radiate

Answer 49

cortical projections from brainstem and thalamus

Question 50

Midbrain reticular formation

Answer 50

a network of neural nuclei in the brain stem that play a role in sleep and arousal

Question 51

Substantia nigra

Answer 51

dark body of dopaminergic neurons that communicate with the basal ganglia to regulate certain aspects of movement