Lecture 1 vocab

Question 1

What is apart of the organ system?

Answer 1

brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves

Question 2

What is apart of the neural system?

Answer 2

brain and eyes

Question 3

What is a part of the brain region?

Answer 3

visual cortex

Question 4

neuroscience subfields focus on questions spanning one or more level of analysis what are these levels?

Answer 4

molecular, cellular, systems, behavioral, cognitive neuroscience

Question 5

What diseases can occur at ion channel levels?

Answer 5

Epilepsy, caused by mutation voltage gated channels

Question 6

What diseases can occur at nerve fiber levels?

Answer 6

Multiple sclerosis, caused by demyelination

Question 7

What diseases can occur at organ system levels?

Answer 7

paralysis, caused by damage to spinal cord

Question 8

what diseases can occur at Social interaction levels

Answer 8

Autism caused by unknown

Question 9

What does the central nervous system(CNS) consist of?

Answer 9

The brain and spinal cord

Question 10

What does the Peripheral nervous system(PNS) consist of?

Answer 10

Nerves themselves that connect the central nervous system to the arms legs and organs

Question 11

what is the spinal cord encased by?

Answer 11

the vertebrae

Question 12

What are the two major divisions of the central nervous system?

Answer 12

The brain and spinal cord

Question 13

What are the two major divisions of the peripheral nervous system?

Answer 13

Somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system

Question 14

what is the somatic nervous system?

Answer 14

The somatic nervous system is voluntary part of the peripheral nervous system consisting of motor neurons and sensory neurons(skin, muscle, eyes, etc)

Question 15

what three divisions does the autonomic nervous system consist of?

Answer 15

sympathetic nervous system(Activate or flight response), parasympathetic nervous system(activates relaxed non-dangerous systems), and enteric nervous system(In the gut and regulated digestion)

Question 16

what is homeostasis?

Answer 16

It’s a dynamic balance between autonomic branches

Question 17

What percent of our body weight is our brain?

Answer 17

2%

Question 18

what percentage of our oxygen does the brain consume?

Answer 18

25%

Question 19

what percentage of our Glucose does the brain consume?

Answer 19

70%

Question 20

What is the cerebral cortex?

Answer 20

the outermost layer of grey matter making up the cerebrum

Question 21

who was Franz Josef Gall?

Answer 21

He proposed that specific brain regions controlled specific cognitive functions/qualities(founder of phrenology)

Question 22

What did Paul Broca do?

Answer 22

He illustrated that different brain regions have specific functions

Question 23

What did Wilder Penfield do?

Answer 23

he simulated brain regions with small amounts of electricity during neurosurgery and cured a woman’s seizures

Question 24

What are the four regions of the brain?

Answer 24

Frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, and temporal lobe

Question 25

What divides the brain into four lobes?

Answer 25

Fissure and sulci

Question 26

What does the frontal lobe consist of?

Answer 26

Decision making, personality, motor brain regions, language

Question 27

What does the Parietal lobe consist of?

Answer 27

Pain touch, temperature processing

Question 28

What is the occipital lobe consist of?

Answer 28

Vision, visual processing?

Question 29

What is the temporal lobe consist of?

Answer 29

memory, language, auditory processing

Question 30

what does the cerebellum allow us to do?

Answer 30

voluntary movement, walking, balance, posture and motor learning

Question 31

what connect the two hemispheres of the brain?

Answer 31

The corpus callosum

Question 32

what are the parts of the brainstem?

Answer 32

Midbrain, ponds, medulla, oblongata

Question 33

what is the midbrain associated with?

Answer 33

Vision, hearing, motor control, sleep/wake, and temperature regulation

Question 34

What is the pons associated with?

Answer 34

sensory and motor processing and sleep

Question 35

what is the medulla associated with?

Answer 35

Centers for heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration, reflex centers regulating autonomic slash involuntary functions

Question 36

what parts of the brain stem is also associated with PNS?

Answer 36

The midbrain, ponds, and medulla

Question 37

What does a spinal cord do?

Answer 37

A conduits for motor information traveling down the spinal cord to PNS, it conduits for sensory information travelling up to their brain, and centers for coordinating certain reflexes

Question 38

what consists of the meninges?

Answer 38

dura matter, arcahnoid membrane, and pia matter

Question 39

What circulates within the subarachnoid space?

Answer 39

Cerebrospinal fluid(CSF)

Question 40

What is the ventricular system?

Answer 40

It is a series of chambers filled with cerebrospinal fluid(CSF)

Question 41

What does CSF do?

Answer 41

It acts as a shock absorber and promotes exchange between the blood and the brain

Question 42

how many ventricles are in the brain?

Answer 42

4, the 3rd and 4th and the lateral ventricles.