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N4 + N5- Nervous system introduction and spinal cord Flashcards

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What nerves make up the peripheral nervous system?

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  • 12 pairs of cranial nerves

- 31 pairs of spinal nerves and their branches

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what are the 3 primary vesicles of the brain at 4 weeks?

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  • Prosencephalon
  • Mesencephalon
  • Rhombencephalon
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How are the secondary vesicles formed at 6-8 weeks?

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Prosencephalon and rhombencephalon divides into 2 swellings and mesencephalon remains the same

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What are the 5 secondary vesicles?

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  • Telencephalon
  • Diencephalon
  • Mesencephalon
  • Metencephalon
  • Mylencephalon
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What major derivative of the mature brain does telencephalon form?

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Cerebral hemispheres

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What major derivative of the mature brain does diencephalon form?

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thalamus, hypothalamus

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What major derivative of the mature brain does mesencephalon form?

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Midbrain

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What major derivative of the mature brain does metencephalon form?

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Pons, cerebellum

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What major derivative of the mature brain does Myelencephalon form?

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Medulla oblongata

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What structures make ups the brainstem?

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  • midbrain
  • pons
  • medulla
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What matter is the brain made up of?

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  • Grey matter

- white matter

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what is grey matter made of and where is most of this matter located?

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  • Huge numbers of neurons, cell processes, synapses and support cells
  • outside edge of brain
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what is white matter made of and where is most of this matter located?

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  • Axons (most myelinated) and their support cells

- deep to grey matter

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What is an exaggerated sulcus?

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fissure

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What grey matter structures are located deep in the cerebral hemispheres?

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  • Caudate nucleus (associated with the ventricles)
  • Thalamus (sits on the midline)
  • Putamen
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What is the internal capsule?

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The main white matter fibre tract between the spinal cord and the cerebral hemispheres

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Where does the central sulcus run?

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Runs superior to inferior and from posterior to anterior

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What gyrus sits anterior to the general sulcus?

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Precentral gyrus

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what gyrus sits posterior to the general sulcus?

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postcentral gyrus

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What sulcus/fissure forms the temporal lobe?

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lateral sulcus or fissure

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what fissure slices the brain in half on the coronal plane?

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longitudinal fissure

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What is the function of the corpus callosum?

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The biggest white matter tract which provides communication between the left and right hemisphere

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What is the name of the primary visual cortex?

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calcarine sulcus

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What sulcus splits the parietal and occipital lobes?

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Parieto-occipital sulcus

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What gyrus and sulcus are superior to the corpus callosum ?

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What is the name of the place where the two sides of the thalamus adhere?

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Interthalamic adhesion

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What are the boundaries of the frontal lobe?

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  • large lobe anterior to the central sulcus and superior to the lateral sulcus
  • lobe anterior to a line drawn from the central sulcus down to the corpus callosum (medial)
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What are the boundaries of the parietal lobe?

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  • posterior to the central sulcus, superior to the lateral sulcus (and a backward extension of it), and anterior to a line from the parieto-occipital sulcus to the preocciptial notch
  • posterior to the frontal lobe and anterior to the parieto-occipital sulcus (medial)
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What are the boundaries of the occipital lobe?

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-posterior to a line from the parieto-occipital sulcus to the preocciptial notch

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What are the boundaries of the temporal lobe?

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  • inferior to the lateral sulcus (and a line extending the lateral sulcus posteriorly) and posteriorly by a line from the parieto-occipital sulcus and the preoccipital notch
  • the temporal lobe extends from the temporal pole, to a line drawn between the preoccipital notch and the anterior end of the calcarine sulcus (medially)
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What is the name and where is the extra lobe/ ‘fifth lobe”?

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  • insula

- hurried in lateral fissure (to see it, cut away the temporal, frontal and parietal opercula )

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what are the 3 layers of the meninges?

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  • dura mater
  • arachnoid mater
  • pia mater
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Describe dura mater.

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outer tough layer of connective tissue

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Describe arachnoid mater.

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relatively thin layer that is usually apposed to the dura mater. Thin, wispy cords of connective tissue connect this layer to the pia

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Describe the Pia mater.

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very thin inner layer that is apposed to the surface of the brain. A layer of pia mater accompanies arteries penetrating into the brain. Pia mater follows there gyrus and sulcus

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what are the two dural folds?

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  • Falx cerebri ( invagination of dura mater down hemispheres of brain)
  • tentorium cerebelli (separates supra-tentorium space and and the sub-tentroium space)
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what do dural folds form when they meet bone?

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venous sinuses

38
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what secretes cerebrospinal-spinal fluid?

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secreted by specialised cells within the ventricular system of the brain

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where does CSF circulate?

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around the brain AND spinal cord from the 4 ventricles to the subarachnoid space

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what reabsorbs CSF into the dural venous sinuses?

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arachnoid granulations

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What produces CSF?

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Choroid plexus in ventricles

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What is the structure of the choroid plexus?

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Core of the choroid plexus is blood vessels and it is enclosed in a choroid epithelium

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How do the lateral ventricles connect to the 3rd ventricle?

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interventricular foramen

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what connects the 3rd and 4th ventricles?

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cerebral aqueduct (thin canal)

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Where does the CSF flow from the 4th ventricle?

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Most flows into subarachnoid space and some flows into the central canal

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What are cisterns?

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in some areas the arachnoid departs substantially from the pia, leaving a relatively large space filled with CSF

47
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Where can you insert a needle without damaging the spinal cord?

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What are the main arteries that supply blood to the brain?

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  • right and left internal carotid arteries

- vertebral arteries

49
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what forms from the vertebral and internal carotid arteries?

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circle of willis

50
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what makes up the circle of willis?

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  • posterior cerebral
  • posterior communications
  • middle cerebral
  • internal carotid
  • anterior cerebral
  • anterior communicating
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what artery moves in the lateral fissure?

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medial cerebral

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what does the branches of the anterior cerebral artery supply?

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The frontal lobe and most of the parietal lobes

53
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what does the branches of the middle cerebral artery supply?

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lateral areas of the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes

54
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what does the branches of the posterior cerebral arteries supply?

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mostly thalamus?

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What is the blood supply to the cerebellum?

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From vertebral arteries:
-Posterior Inferior Cerebellar artery
From basilar artery:
-Anterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery
-Superior Cerebellar Artery
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What is the blood supply to the brainstem?

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-Midbrain: branches from the termination of the basilar artery and initial segment of the posterior cerebral artery.
Pons: Pontine arteries (paramedian and circumferential)
Medulla: branches from anterior inferior cerebellar artery and posterior inferior cerebellar artery

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what is the venous sinuses drainage in the brain?

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Superior saggital sinus> confluence of the sinus> tranverse sinus > sigmoid sinus

58
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where eventually does the dural venous sinuses drain?

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internal jugular vein

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What is the venous drainage of the deep brain and inferior surface?

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series of veins that largely empty into the great cerebral vein and then the straight sinus

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where does the great cerebral vein and terminal part of internal cerebral vein travel in?

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transvers fissure

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