Nervous System (the Brain) Flashcards
Wan at are the lobes in the brain and what are there locations
Frontal lobe (front)
Occipital love (back)
Parietal lobe (middle)
Temporal lobe (bottom near the hypothalamus)
What does the temporal lobe control
Hypothalamus
Auditory
Smell (olfaction)
What does the parietal lobe control
Comprehension of language
Orientation of the body (space and time)
Proprioception (sensing of movement, almost a sixth sense)
What does the frontal lobe control
Personality , short term memory, behaviour, intelligence
What does the occipital lobe control
Visuals
What is the limbic system
Between the neocortex and the hypothalamus
Limbic=sex (allows humans to procreate)
Would be the bridge between the autonomic and the voluntary changes to the environment
What does the notochord form
The nucleus pulposus
What is neuralation
The formation of the neural tube from the neural plate
The neural tube would then go onto form the brain and the spinal cord
What is anacephaly and spina bifia
Neural tube defects
Spina bifia: failure to form the neural tube in the lumbo-sacral regions of the brain
Anacephaly: the failure to form the neural tube in the brain
Both would lead to herniation
What is a meningocele
Protrusionof the meninges in the spine or the skull
What is a closed Spinal dysraphism
Deficiency in at least 2 spinal arches
The babies spinal cord would not form properly
What is a Myelomenginocele
Open spinal cord
What are the arteries of the brain
Anterior cerebral artery, posterior cerebral artery, basal and veterbral arteries,
Middle cerebral arteries, connecting communicating arteries
What artery supplies the front brain with blood
Anterior cerebral artery
What supplies the occipital (back) lobe of the brain with blood
Posterior cerebral artery
