Mod 2

Question 1

What are the lobes of the brain

Answer 1

Frontal, parietal, limbic, temporal, occipital

Question 2

What is considered to be the sixth lobe of the brain

Answer 2

Insula

Question 3

In the skull the frontal lobe lies on the _____ fossa

Answer 3

Anterior

Question 4

In the skull the _______ rests on the middle fossa

Answer 4

Temporal

Question 5

The ____ rests in the posterior fossa. It also includes ___,____,___

Answer 5

Occipital

Pon, cerebrellum and medulla

Question 6

What is the cortex composed of

Answer 6

Grey matter

Question 7

The cortex is divided into the ___ and ____

Answer 7

Neocortex and allocortex

Question 8

What is included in the neocortex

Answer 8

Frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital and insular lobes

Accounts for 90% of the cortex

Question 9

What does the allocortex include

Answer 9

Hippocampal structures, olfactory cortex and limbic structures
10% of cortex

Question 10

What cells in the cortex give rise to voluntary movement pathways

Answer 10

Giant cells of Betz

Question 11

Most cortical neuron are _____ cells

Answer 11

Pyramidal

Question 12

The cortex is organized into ____ columns

Answer 12

Vertical

Question 13

An elevation in the surface of the brain is called

Answer 13

Gyrus or convolution

Question 14

A depression in the surface of the brain is called

Answer 14

sulcus or fissure

Question 15

Another name for the central sulcus

Answer 15

Fissure of Rolando

Question 16

Another name for Sylvian fissure

Answer 16

Lateral fissure/sulcus

Question 17

The Sagittal fissure is also known as

Answer 17

The longitudinal fissure

Question 18

Where is the frontal lobe located

Answer 18

Anterior to the central sulcus and superior to the lateral sulcus

Question 19

The occipital lobe is located ___

Answer 19

On the lateral view, posterior to an imaginary line parallel to the parietooccupital sulcus

Question 20

Where is the posterior lobe

Answer 20

Posterior to the central sulcus

Anterior to the imaginary parietooccipital line

Question 21

The _____ is below the lateral sulcus and anterior to the imaginary p/o line

Answer 21

Temporal

Question 22

The insula is located

Answer 22

Deep the the sylvian fissure

Question 23

The limbic system is located

Answer 23

At the bottom of the sylvian fissure, medially

Question 24

What are the important gyri of the frontal lobe

Answer 24

Precentral, superior/first frontal gyrus, middle/second gyrus, and inferior/third

Question 25

The precentral gyrus contains

Answer 25

Primary motor strip (Broadman’s area 4)
Vertically oriented
Organized as the motor homunculus

Question 26

The third/inferior frontal gyrus contains

Answer 26

Broca’s area (44) = motor association cortex for speech

Question 27

How many sections does the third/inferior frontal gyrus have

Answer 27

3
Opercular
Triangular
Orbital

Question 28

The broca’s area include the ___ and ___ sections for the inferior gyrus

Answer 28

Triangular and opercular

Question 29

What’s the difference between primary and association

Answer 29

Association are secondary and tertiary cortical area –> border the primary

Question 30

For sensory cortical functions ____ receives/perceives the sensory data and the _____ interprets the meaning

Answer 30

Primary

Association

Question 31

For the motor cortical functions, the ____ sends out commands for muscles to contract and the ____ provide the plan or program for desired movement

Answer 31

Primary

Association

Question 32

The premotor cortex is

Answer 32

Motor association cortex for skilled movement

Also known as area 6 or supplementary motor area

Question 33

The _____ cortex lie anterior to areas 4,6 and 8

Answer 33

Prefrontal cortex

Question 34

What is the role of the prefrontal cortex

Answer 34

Executive functioning, reassigning and planning

Question 35

What is brodmans are 3-1-2

Answer 35

Post central gyrus

Question 36

The post-central gyrus is Brodmann’s areas _______ and mediates________ _______ _________ information

Answer 36

3-1-2

Somatic general sensory

Question 37

Damage to Broca’s area results in

Answer 37

Problems motor planning for speech

Question 38

The layers of the cortex are horizontally and vertically organized and show cell specificity by vertical location that is related to function

Answer 38

True

Question 39

Sensory association areas are

Answer 39

Sensory integration/interpretation

Question 40

The occipital lobe contains area 17 which is visual association cortex.

Answer 40

False: primary visual cortex

Areas 18 and 19 are the association cortex

Question 41

Wernicke’s area is in the _______lobe and is ________ ________ ________cortex.

Answer 41

temporal ; auditory verbal association

Question 42

The Sylvian Fissure separates the

Answer 42

Frontal and temporal lobes

Question 43

The supramarginal gyrus is located in the ___________lobe and is a _______area.

Answer 43

Parietal

Sensory association

Question 44

Functionally, the pre-central gyrus is responsible for motor innervation to the voluntary skeletal musculature and is Brodmann’s area

Answer 44

4

Question 45

A lesion to the supramarginal gyrus causes

Answer 45

Alexia

Question 46

A lesion to the angular gyrus

Answer 46

Anomia

Question 47

Heschl’s gyrus is in the ____ and is the ____ _____ cortex

Answer 47

Temporal

Primary auditory

Question 48

Broca’s area is in the 3rd or inferior gyrus of the temporal lobe

Answer 48

False: in the 3rd/inferior gyrus of the frontal lobe

Question 49

Lesions to the right parietal lobe result in

Answer 49

Visuospatial and constructional disorders

Question 50

Brodman’s area 41 and 42 is

Answer 50

Heschl’s gyrus

Question 51

Brodman’s area 22

Answer 51

Weirnicke’s