Motor/sensory

Question 1

What are the deep cerebellar nuclei?

Answer 1

(from medial to lateral) the fastigial, globose, emboliform, and dentate nuclei.

Question 2

Where is the claustrum?

Answer 2

Attached to the underside of the neocortex - between insular cortex and lentiform nucleus

Question 3

What are the Edinger-Westphal nuclei?

Answer 3

parasympathetic pre-ganglionic nucleus that innervates the iris sphincter muscle and the ciliary muscle (pupillary light reflex and accommodation)

Question 4

What is the lentiform nucleus?

Answer 4

Globus pallidus and putamen

Question 5

What is the internal capsule?

Answer 5

white matter structure situated in the inferomedial part of each cerebral hemisphere of the brain. It carries information past the basal ganglia, separating the caudate nucleus and the thalamus from the putamen and the globus pallidus.

Question 6

What is the OVLT?

Answer 6

organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis, or supraoptic crest is one of the four sensory circumventricular organs of the brain
surrounded by hypothalamus, monitoring osmolarity