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Neuroanatomy Flashcards

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What forms the floor of the 4th ventricle?

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Rhomboid Fossa

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What makes up the dorsal brainstem?

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Tectum, rhomboid fossa, gracile and cuneate nuclei and medulla oblongata

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What seperates the gracile and cuneate tubercles

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posterior median sulcus

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What makes up the tectum

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the superior and inferior colliculi

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What makes up the diencephalon?

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hypothalamus, thalamus, epithalamus (dorsal to thalamus) , subthalamus (ventral to thalamus) and the 3rd ventricle

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What joins each side of the thalami?

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interthalamic adhesion

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Where does the anterior nuclear group receive fibres from and project fibres to?

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Mammillary bodies (limbic) –> cingulate cortex

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Where does the medial nuclear group receive fibres from and project fibres to?

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Hypothalamus, amygdala (limbic) –> prefrontal cortex

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Where does the ventral anterior nucleus receive fibres from and project fibres to?

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Basal ganglia –> premotor cortex

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Where does the ventral lateral nucleus receive fibres from and project fibres to?

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Globus pallidus, substantia nigra, cerebellum –> primary motor cortex (frontal)

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Where does the ventral posterior nucleus (lateral) receive fibres from and project fibres to?

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somatic afferent fibres from body –> somatosensory cortex (parietal)

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Where does the ventral posterior nucleus (medial) receive fibres from and project fibres to?

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somatic afferent fibres from head –> somatosensory cortex (parietal)

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Where does the medial geniculate nucleus receive fibres from and project fibres to?

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inferior collicus –> auditory cortex (temporal)

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Where does the lateral geniculate nucleus receive fibres from and project fibres to?

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optic tract and superior collicus –> visual cortex (occipital)

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Where does the pulvinar nucleus receive fibres from and project fibres to?

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Extensive connections with association cortices of parietal, temporal and occipital lobes.

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What does the epithalamus contain?

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Habenula (stalk and connected nerve fibres of the pineal gland) and the pineal gland

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What is the pineal body?

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An endocrine gland synthesising hormones including melatonin. May have an effect on circadian rhythyms.

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What is the lentiform nucleus made up of?

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putamen and globus pallidus

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What is the striatum made up if?

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Caudate and Putamen

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Where is the primary somatosensory cortex?

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Postcentral gyrus on the parietal love

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Where is the secondary somatosensory cortex?

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Adjacent to the head region of the primary SS cortex

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Where does C4 innervate?

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Shoulder tip

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Where does T4 innervate?

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Nipples

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Where does T10 innervate?

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Belly Button

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Where does L1 innervate?

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Inguinal ligament

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What is the spinothalamic tract responsible for?

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Coarse touch, pain, temperature

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What is the dorsal column pathway responsible for?

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Proprioception, vibration, fine touch

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What is the spinocerebellar pathway responsible for?

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proprioception

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What is Brown-Sequard synfrom

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hemisection of spinal cord, ipsilateral loss of vibration, fine touch + contralateral loss of temp, pain and coarse touch.

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What is the motor cortex made up of?

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Primary motor cortex, paracentral lobule, premotor cortex, supplementary motor area

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Describe the cortico-spinal fibres

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Pyramidal tract, desc motor pathway from cerebral cortex, fibres run to contralateral ventral and dorsal horns of spinal cord

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Describe the cortio-nuclear fibres

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Descend with cortico-spinal fibres, terminate in motor nuclei of cranial nerves of pons and medulla

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Describe the cortico-pontine fibres

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First order fibres in cortico-pontine-cerebellar pathway, terminate ipsilaterally in pontine nuclei

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What are medullary pyramids?

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Eminences marking position of underlying fibres, 80% fibres decussate here

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What are the medullary olives?

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Swellings lateral to pyramids on each side, contain inferior olivary nuclei.

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What are the inferior olivary nuclei?

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Have connection with contralateral cerebellar circuits

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Lateral corticospinal tract (in spinal cord)

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already decussated and mainly controls distal muscles

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Ventral corticospinal tract (in spinal cord)

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hasn’t decussated and mainly controls trunk muscles- balance

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Rubrospinal tract (in spinal cord)

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function in humans unclear- fine finger movement/proximal trunk?

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Reticulospinal tract (in spinal cord)

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influences muscle tone and responsiveness

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Vestibulospinal tract (in spinal cord)

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balance

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Tectospinal tract (in spinal cord)

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reflexes

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What are substantia nigra?

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Black, dopamine producing, visible superior to cerebral peduncle?

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In what condition to substantia nigra die?

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Parkinson’s

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45
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What are the red nucei?

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Imaginary on cadaver, give rise to rubrospinal tract from above.

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What can a raised ICP cause?

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herniation of cerebellar tonsils –> foramen magnum and brainstem compression

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Where foes the floccular lobe lie?

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Mediun surface of where 4th ventricle protrudes into base of cerebellum

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What does the floccular lobe do?

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Concerned with vestibular information

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What happens in Huntingdon’s?

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atrophy of caudate nucleus, leads to hyperkinetic movement

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What happens in Parkinson’s?

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inhibits too many movements, hard to initiate movement

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51
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What motor fibres synapse at the genu?

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V, VII, IX, X, XI, XII

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What can cause cerebellar dysfunction?

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alcohol, ischaemia/stroke, thiamin deficiency, demyelination

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What signs are there of cerebellar dysfunction?

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Dysdiadokinesis
Ataxia
Nystagmus
Intention tremor
Slurred speech
Hypotonia
Past pointing
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Olfactory Nerve

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Special sensory
Olfaction. No brainstem nuceli.
Direct projection to reach limbic and olfactory cortex structures, passes through cribiform plate.

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Optic Nerve

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Special sensory

Sight and pupillary reflex. Originates in thalamus, passes through optic canal. Retina–> LGN.

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Oculomotor Nerve

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Motor
Eye movement (not lateral) and levator paplebrae. Edinger-Westphal nucleus. Roots emerge from medial surface of each crus cerebi into the interpenduncular fossa --> cavernous sinus --> superior orbital fissure
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Trochlear Nerve

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Motor
Eye movement- superior oblique. Emegres dorsally and curves around lateral peduncle –> interpeduncular fossa. `Through cavernous sinus to superior orbital fissure.

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Trigeminal Nerve

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Both
Sensation of touch on face, mastication, taste. Emerges through middle cerebellar peduncle lateral to pons. Goes through superior orbital fissure (V1), foramen rotundum (V2) and foramen ovale (V3)

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Abducens Nerve

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Motor
Eye movement- lateral oblique. Emerges either side of the midline and passes rostrally over the ventral pontine surface. Exits through superior orbital fissure. Long intracranial course and may be stretched with abnormalities (including raised ICP)

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Facial Nerve

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Both
Muscles of facial expression, salivation, tear secretion. Emerges medially at lateral margin of medullary-pontine angle. Leaves through internal auditory meatus –> stylomastoid foramen

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Vestibulocochlear Nerve

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Sensory

Hearing and balance. Emerges laterally at margin of medullary-pontine angle. Leaves through auditory meatus.

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Glossopharyngeal Nerve

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Both
Taste, salivation and swallowing. Slender rootlets found in venterolateral sulcus at posterolateral margin of the olive of the medulla- lying across cerebellar flocculus. Exits skull through jugular foramen.

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Vagal Nerve

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Both
Gastric and pancreatic secretions. GI movement, cardiac reflex, visceral reflect, resp. reflex, speech. Slender rootlets found in venterolateral sulcus at posterolateral margin of the olive of the medulla- lying across cerebellar flocculus. Exits skull through jugular foramen.

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Accessory Nerve

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Motor
Muscle movement of trapezii and SCM. Spinal and cranial parts. Slender rootlets found in venterolateral sulcus at posterolateral margin of the olive of the medulla- lying across cerebellar flocculus. Exits skull through jugular foramen.

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Hypoglossal Nerve

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Motor

Tongue movement. Formed by series of fine nerve rootlets from ventrlateral sulcus. Goes through hypoglossal canal

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What are caruncle

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red corners of the eye

67
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What the lacrimal punctum

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collect tears from lacrimal glands

68
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What surrounds the eyeball?

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Fascial sheath, supported by lateral and medial check ligaments, suspensory ligaments and retrobulbar fat

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Pathway of vision

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Retina –> optic nerve –> LGN of thalamus

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What happens at the optic chiasm?

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Optic nerve partially crosses. Fibres from nasal half decussate and join uncrossed fibres from temporal/lateral half from other side

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Where do the fibres split and go?

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Before LGN, lateral root goes to LGN and medial root goes to superior colliculus of the tectum of the midbrain. Visual reflexes facilitated here.

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What is input from the frontal eye field necessary for?

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Voluntary eye movements

73
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Where is the coordination of eye movements organised?

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Specialised regions of the reticular formation

74
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Where is the visual cortex?

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Primary visual cortex (area 17) occupies walls of posterior part of calcarine sulcus.

75
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What does retinotopic projection of the cortex cause?

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Central vision to be projected more posteriorly and peripheral vision more anteriorly.

76
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What protects against loud sounds?

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Tensor tympani and stapedius

77
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What is the innervation of tensor tympani

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CNIII, V3 (mandibular)

78
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What is the innervation of stapedius

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CNVIII (facial)

79
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What is the function of the pharyngotympanic/ eustachian tube?

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Ventilates middle ear space, maintaining pressure.

80
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Where does the auditory pathway go?

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Synapses in dorsal and ventral cochlear nuclei, continues in lateral lemniscus to inferior collicus–> medial geniculate body by ‘branchium of inferior collicus’. From MGN in thalamus –> auditory cortex of temporal lobe via auditory radiation of the internal capsule.

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Where is the primary auditory cortex found?

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Approx. area 41, occupies part of floor and lower lip of lateral fissure opposite lower end of post central sulcus. Surrounded by association cortical areas.

82
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What is Wernicke’s area?

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Speech area- part of temporal love. Perception and understanding.

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What would lesions on Wernicke’s area lead to?

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Receptive aphasia

84
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What is Broca’s area?

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Speech area- part of frontal lobe. Motor side of speech.

85
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What would lesions on Broca’s area lead to?

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Expressive aphasia

86
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What is the superior speech cortex?

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Corresponds to the SMA, damage is not devastating to speech.

87
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What is a Berry Anurism Rupture

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Subarachnoid so blood enters CSF –> ‘thunderclap headache’
CN III and VI likely to be affected
Associated with polycystic kidney and connective tissue diseases/disorders

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Ischaemic Stroke

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RFs: smoking, hypertension, high cholesterol/atherosclerosis, alcohol, AF, clotting disorders, vascular disease
150,000/ year + undiagnosed and TIAs
Lesion in left hemisphere would present contralaterally

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Axillary nerve injury

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Shoulder

Deltoid and teres minor paralysis, no abduction of arm and loss of upper lateral sensation

90
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Radial nerve injury

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Humerus (radial groove with fracture) and axilla

Dependent of location of lesion- loss of surface of lateral 3 fingers –> loss of posterior compartment

91
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Musculocutaneous nerve injury

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Uncommon- stab wound to axilla

Weak shoulder flexion, weak elbow flexion, weak supination. Loss of sensation to lateral forearm

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Median nerve injury

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Wrist (also elbow)

Poor wrist flexion, weak elbow flexion, weak supination, lateral forearm sensation loss

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Ulnar nerve injury

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Elbow (also wrist)

Loss of thumb flexion, paralysis of flexors and pronators of forearm, loss of sensation

94
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Where does the brachial plexus arise from?

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C5-T1

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Where does the lumbar plexus arise from?

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T12-L4

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Where does the sacral plexus arise from?

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L1-S4

97
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Femoral nerve injury

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Trauma/surgery

Weakness/numbness in innervating region (hip flexion/knee extension). Difficulty going up and down stairs ‘knee bucking’

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Obturator nerve injury

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Pelvic trauma/surgery

Pain, numbness and weakness

99
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Sciatic nerve injury

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Sciatica (spinal disk herniation, spinal stenosis etc

Shooting, descending posterior leg pain

100
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Common peroneal injury

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Lateral knee trauma (‘car bumper’)

Foot drop- affecting the lateral and anterior compartments of the lef

101
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Tibial nerve injury

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Posterior knee

Inability to curl toes, weakness of foot muscles, loss of sensation in sole of foot

102
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Upper brachial plexus injury

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Erb’s Palsy
‘waiter’s tip’ - C5-C6 paralysis of biceps and other, can’t abduct shoulder, laterally rotate, supinate or shoulder flex easily. Also loss of lateral sensation, occurs from over-stretching the neck/shoulder angle (fall on side of head and bend)

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Lower brachial plexus injury

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Klumpke palsy
‘claw hand’- T1- ulnar and median nerve. Loss of small muscle movements in hand. Injury occurs from rupping the arm upwards e.g grabbing a branch when falling out a tree.

104
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Subdural haemorrhage

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venous blood, rupture of bridging veins
common mechanism: head trauma causing shearing forces. Elderly most at risk (more falls and weaker tissues) also can be sign of abuse ‘shaken baby syndrome’

105
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Extradural haematoma

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Between skull and periosteum, only detaches between suture lines. From depressed skull fracture most often. Eg middle meningeal artery rupture at pterion.
‘Lucid interval’ where person this fines after initial unconscious, then rapid deterioration.
10-15% mortality, 2% head injuries but 5-15% deaths

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Upper motor neuron injuries

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Stroke
Intracranial bleed
Cerebal Palsy
MS
Traumatic Brain Injur
107
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Lower motor neuron injuries

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MND (can be both)
Specific nerve palsies
Peripheral neuropathy
Poliomyelitis

108
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Femoral nerve block

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LA to femoral nerve supplying periosteum of femur. Performed following fractured head of femur.

109
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Neurological examination

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Inspection
Tone
Power
Reflexes
Sensation
Coordination
110
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Where do association fibres run?

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Entirely within one hemisphere, 3 major association fibres per hemisphere

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Superior longitudinal fasiculus

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association fibre: connect frontal, parietal and occipital loves

112
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Cingulum

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association fibre: inside the cingulate gyrus, connecting distant regions of the cortex

113
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Inferior longitudinal fasiculus

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association fibre: connect temporal and occipital loves

114
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Small association fibre bundles

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External capsule- between claustrum and putamen
Extreme capsule- between claustrum and insular cortex
U fibres- join adjacent sections of cortex

115
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What are the functions of commissural fibres?

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Uniting sensory information of cerebral hemisphere.

Unite areas of cortex that has specialised functions to one hemisphere

116
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Corpus Callosum

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Largest commissural fibre, fibres curve forward and backwards into different lobe.
Has posterior gibres, anterior fibres and horizontal fibres

117
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Posterior fibres of corpus callosum

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pass more laterally than anterior fibres because of deep parieto-occipito sulcus (forceps major –> occipital love)

118
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Anterior fibres of corpus callosum

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forceps minor (genu–> frontal lobe)

119
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Horizontal fibres of corpus callosum

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form rood of lateral ventricle and laterally interdigitate with vertical corona radiata (projection fibres) - carry info subcortical–> cortical regions

120
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Anterior commissure

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(thick) crosses midline horizontally between lamina terminalis. Connect the temporal lobes

121
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Posterior commissue

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(thin) crosses midline at junction of midbrain and diencephalon, anterior to superior collicus and posterior to pineal body

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Hippocampal commisure

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(commissure of fornix) a thin layer inferior to the splenium of the corpus callosum- formed by fibres that originate in the hippocampal formations and cross the midline

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Internal Capsule

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large compact bundles of projection fibres of the hemispheres

124
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What makes up the limbic system?

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Hippocampus, cingulate gyrus, cingulum and fornix, hypothalamus, amygdala

125
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What is the limbic system?

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Part of the brain involved with learning, memory and emotion.

126
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What diseases affect the limbic system?

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Schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease and some forms of epilepsy.

127
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Where is the hippocampus?

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Rounded elevation, approx. 5cm long on the floor of the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle, expands anteriorly

128
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Structure of the hippocampus?

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Ventricular surface is covered with ependyma beneath which the alveus (white myelinated fibre) pass around ventricle to become the fornix

129
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Where is the cingulate gyrus found?

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Lies immediately dorsal and parallel to the corpus callosum.
Anteriorly- turns below rostrum of callosum
Posteriorly- continues downwards, forwards and laterally onto infero-medial surface of temporal lbe

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What is the uncus?

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Hook shaped region of cortex at anterior end of cingulate gyrus, provides surface marking for underlying amygdala and parahippocampal gyrus.

131
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What is the cingulum?

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bundle of axons passing round deep to cingulate and hippocampal gyri

132
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What is the entohinal cortex?

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interface between hippocampus and the neocortex

133
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What is the fornix?

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Bundles of white matter attached inferiorly to septum pellucidum on each sde.

134
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Where does the fornix fuse?

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Fuse anteriorly in the midline and turn vertically down to project posteriorly behind the anterior commissue and reach the mammilary bodies

135
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What do the mamillary bodies contain?

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Mammillary nuclei of the hypothalamus

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What is the function of the mammillary bodies?

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Anterior part- sned fibres to anterior nuclei of the thalamus which then project to cortex of cingulate gyrus.

137
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What is the hypothalamus?

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Ventral division of the diencephalon- lamina terminalis –> immediately behind mammillary bodies

138
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What is the function of the hypothalamus?

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An important centre for homeostasis and autonomic/neuroendocrine control

139
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What splits the diencephalon in half?

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The third ventricle- continues into cerebral aqueduct.

140
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Where is he amygdala located?

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anterior and slightly superior to the anterior hippocampus?

141
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Where fibres are in the amygdala?

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Fibres form the stria terminalis, the lateral ventricle and amygdalofugal pathway in the ventral part of the hemisphere

142
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Where does the amygdala receive input from?

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Receives a major, direct unput from the olfactory bulb

143
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What forms the ventral striatum?

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Nucleus accumbens septi (part of septal nuclei) and region of anterior perforated substance (olfactory tubercle)

144
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Where does the striatum receive projections from?

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Intralaminar and midline nuclei of thalamus and dopaminergic fibres from ventral tegmental area (adjacent to substantia nigra)

145
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Where does the striatum project fibres to?

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Ventral extension of globus pallidus, found below anterior commissure, called ventral pallidum, then projects to thalamus

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What is CSF produced by?

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Choroid plexus, located in the lateral third and fourth ventricles

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Where does CSF enter the subarachnoid space?

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via the lateral and median apertures in the fourth ventricle

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How is CSF reabsorbed?

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Via the arachnoid granulations mainly into the superior sagittal sinus.

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What does a T1 MRI light up?

A

Bone

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What does a T2 MRI light up?

A

bone + CSF

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What allows CSF to go around spinal cord?

A

Foramen of Luschka (anterior) and Magnedie (posterior)

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communicating hydrocephalus

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communicating (too much CSF/not being drained

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non-communicating hydrocephalus

A

blockage eg tumour compression

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Hydrocephalus treatment

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shunt relieves pressure
lumbar puncture in older patients
DO NOT LP people with raised ICP

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What is hydropcephalus

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increased volume of CSF in ventricles

156
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Wernicke’s encephalopathy

A 
acute thiamine (vit B1) deficiency (chronic alcohol excess increases susceptibility) -
commonly causing ocular palsies, cerebellar cell damange
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Korsakoff’s Amnesia/Dementia

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chronic phase thiamine (vit B1) deficiency (chronic alcohol excess increases susceptibility) - general cerebral atrophy, damage to mammillary bodies and thalamic nuclei that synapse with limbic system. Causes retro/anterio-grade amnesia, confabulation (invented memories), apathy and blindness

Year 2 Anatomy (5 decks)

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