Neuroanatomy

Question 1

Label the lateral view of the left hemisphere

Answer 1

(see diagram)

Question 2

What is a dorsal view of the brain?

Answer 2

Looking from the top

Question 3

What fissure is visible from the dorsal view of the brain?

Answer 3

Longitudinal fissure

Question 4

What is a ventral view of the brain?

Answer 4

Looking from the bottom (feet up)

Question 5

What is a medial view of the brain?

Answer 5

Brain cut through corpus collosum - where cerebral hemispheres connect

Question 6

What are the two parts of the nervous system? (2)

Answer 6

• Central nervous system

- Peripheral nervous system

Question 7

What are the two parts of the central nervous system?

Answer 7

• Brain (within skull)

- Spinal cord (within vertebral column)

Question 8

What are the two parts of the peripheral nervous system?

Answer 8

• Cranial nerves

- Spinal nerves

Question 9

How many cranial nerves are there?

Answer 9

12x pairs in periphery

Question 10

How many spinal nerves are there?

Answer 10

31x pairs in periphery

Question 11

What are the functional divisions of the brain? (4)

Answer 11

• Brainstem
• Cerebellum
• Diencephalon
• Cerebrum

Question 12

What are the parts of the brainstem? (6)

Answer 12

• Medulla oblongata
• Pons
• Midbrain
• Reticular formation
• Pineal body
• Superior and inferior colliculi

Question 13

What makes up the hindbrain?

Answer 13

Lower part of the brainstem:
- Pons
- Medulla oblongata
And cerebellum

Question 14

What are the developmentmntal reigions of the brain? (3)

Answer 14

• Forebrain
• Midbrain
• Hindbrain

Question 15

What makes up the forebrain? (3)

Answer 15

• Cerebral hemispheres
• Thalamus
• Hypothalamus

Question 16

Label the developmental regions of the brain

Answer 16

See notes

Question 17

What is the forebrain also known as?

Answer 17

Prosencephalon

Question 18

What is the midbrain also known as?

Answer 18

Mesencephalon

Question 19

What is the hindbrain also known as?

Answer 19

Rhombencephalon

Question 20

What area of the brain is supplied by the internal carotid artery?

Answer 20

• Anterior 2/3 of cerebral hemisphere

- Basal ganglia

Question 21

What supplies the circle of Willis? (2)

Answer 21

• Internal caroids (anteriorly)

- Basilar artery (posteriorly)

Question 22

What does the circle of Willis branch off to form? And where are their origin? (6)

Answer 22

• Anterior cerebral artery
• Middle cerebral artery
  = FROM internal carotids
• Posterior cerebral arteries
  = FROM basilar artery

Question 23

What area of the brain is supplied by the anterior cerebral artery? (2)

Answer 23

• Frontal cerebellum

- Medial cerebellum