neuroanatomy

Question 1

frontal lobe function

Answer 1

anterior - thinking, problem solving, organizing, personality, impulse control
posterior - motor

Question 2

parietal function

Answer 2

touch, taste, temperature, language processing, self-perception

Question 3

temporal function

Answer 3

dominant (usually left) - perception of words, memory, auditory learning, complex memories, auditory and visual processing, smell
non-dominant - perception of melodies, reading, visual learning, facial expression

Question 4

occipital function

Answer 4

visual perception

Question 5

subcortex

Answer 5

limbic system, hippocampus, hypothalamus, thalamus

Question 6

limbic system function

Answer 6

emotional / instinctual responses

Question 7

hippocampus function

Answer 7

formation of lasting memories

Question 8

hypothalamus function

Answer 8

control of emotions and hormone release, organizes behaviros

Question 9

cerebellum

Answer 9

coordination, tone, posture, balance

Question 10

midbrain

Answer 10

relays auditory and visual information, fine motor control

Question 11

pons

Answer 11

motor control, sleep and consciousness sensory interpretation

Question 12

medulla

Answer 12

vital functions (HR, RR, swallowing), pathway to higher cortical areas from spinal cord

Question 13

parietal injury

Answer 13

hemi-neglect, apraxia

Question 14

epithalamus

Answer 14

circadian rhythms / sleep via melatonin from pineal gland, connects limbic system to rest of brain, emotional response

Question 15

spinal cord

Answer 15

anterior spinal - 2/3 anterior spinal cord
two posterior spinal - 1/3 posterior
medullary - long radicular that anastomose with spinal

Question 16

great artery of adamkiewicz

Answer 16

largest anterior medullary artery from between T8 and L1 to anterior spinal artery -> supplies lumbar and spinal cord

Question 17

cervical, brachial, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal plexi

Answer 17

C1-4 (4)
C5-T1 (4)
L1-5 (5)
L4-S3 (5)
S4, S5, Co1 (3)

Question 18

parasympathetic origin

Answer 18

CN 3, 7, 9, 10

S 2-4

Question 19

sympathetics

Answer 19

T1-L2 lateral horn

enter sympathetic trunk via white (T1-L2); exit via gray (all levels)

Question 20

splanchnic nerves

Answer 20

carry both visceral efferent and afferent
paired nerves that innervate viscera
most are sympathetic except pelvic splanchnics (parasympathetic)
don’t synapse in sympathetic chain