Neuroanatomy

Question 1

Gyrus

Answer 1

Raised parts of the brain or grooves

Question 2

Sulcus

Answer 2

Valley or Dip of grooves

Question 3

ventricles

Answer 3

4 fluid filled cavitities of the brain

Question 4

meningies

Answer 4

3 layers of tissue that lay over the brain

Question 5

Blood Brain Barrier

Answer 5

used to deliver oxygen to the brain, a selective barrier

Question 6

White Matter

Answer 6

Brain tissue made of axons, called a tract

Question 7

Corpus Collosum

Answer 7

Attaches the left and right hemisphere

Question 8

Commisures

Answer 8

small connections between hemispheres

Question 9

Gray Matter

Answer 9

Made up of cell bodies

Question 10

Spinal Chord

Answer 10

2 way communication center between PNS and CNS

Question 11

Brain Stem

Answer 11

White matter in charge of motor and sensory nuclei

Question 12

Medula

Answer 12

Cell bodies for cranial nerves

Question 13

Pons

Answer 13

Cranial nerves and white matter

Question 14

Mid Brain

Answer 14

Superior Colliculus for vision and hearing and the VTA

Question 15

reticular formation

Answer 15

arousal and conciousness

Question 16

Diencephelon

Answer 16

2 sections of the brain

Question 17

Thalamus

Answer 17

Sensory relay

Question 18

Hypothalus

Answer 18

Homostasis and regulation

Question 19

Cerebrum or Telencephalon

Answer 19

The limbic system

Question 20

Basil Ganglia

Answer 20

Motor area

Question 21

Cerebral Cortex

Answer 21

4 lobes of the brain

Question 22

frontal Lobe

Answer 22

Decision making, executive motor functions

Question 23

temporal lobe

Answer 23

hearinng

Question 24

parietal lobe

Answer 24

touch/sight

Question 25

occipital lobe

Answer 25

vision

Question 26

cerebellum

Answer 26

movement and error correction

Question 27

CAT Scan

Answer 27

Low resolutions

Question 28

MRI

Answer 28

Measures density

Question 29

EEG

Answer 29

Measures activity, good temporal resolution, bad spacial

Question 30

fMRI

Answer 30

Measures blood flow, good spacial, bad temporal

Question 31

Oligodendrocytes

Answer 31

Myelin in the CNS make multiple sheaths

Question 32

Schwann cells

Answer 32

Make myelin in the PNS, make one sheath

Question 33

Microglia

Answer 33

Macrophage, clean PNS

Question 34

Astrocytes

Answer 34

Create blood brain barrier, vasodilation and vasoconstriction, regulate cell environment

Question 35

Ependymal cells

Answer 35

Make cerebral spinal fluid

Question 36

Satellite cells

Answer 36

Regulate cell environment

Question 37

Radial glia

Answer 37

Scaffold for neuron in migration

Question 38

Glutamate

Answer 38

Excitatory

Question 39

GABA

Answer 39

Inhibitory

Question 40

Dopamine

Answer 40

Movement, control and reward

Question 41

Serotonin

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Sleep, arousal, mood

Question 42

Norepinephrine

Answer 42

Stress/arousal