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Neuroanatomy Flashcards

1
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Where is in the insula?

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Deep in Sylvian fissure

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What is the insula?

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Seat of the primary gustatory cortex

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What is in the middle frontal gyrus?

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Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

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Where is the cingulate sulcus?

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Medial side of frontal lobe

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5
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Where is the seat of motivation?

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Anterior position of adjoining cingulate gyrus

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What does the orbitofrontal cortex do

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associative learning decision-making

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What is the inferior parietal lobe made of

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Angular gyrus

Supramarginal gyrus

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What is the inferior parietal lobe important for?

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Visuospatial attention

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Where is the primary visual cortex?

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Calcarine sulcus in medial occipital cortex

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10
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Where is prosody located?

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Right hemisphere

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How many right-handed people have a dominant right hemisphere?

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10%

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How many left-handed people have a right dominant hemisphere?

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20%

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How many left handed people have left dominant hemisphere?

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64%

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How many left handed people have bilateral dominance

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16%

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Signs in left hemisphere lesions

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Aphasia
Right-left disorientation
Finger agnosia
Dysgraphia (aphasic)
Dyscalculia (number alexia)
Limb apraxia
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Signs in right hemisphere lesions

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Visuospatial deficits
Anosognosia
Neglect
Dysgraphia (spatial, neglect)
Dyscalculia (spatial)
Constructional apraxia
Dressing apraxia
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17
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Which hemisphere lesion leads to face recognition?

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Bilateral

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18
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Functions of limbic system?

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Mediation of emotional responses via amygdala
Influencing neuroendocrine responses via hypothalamus
Reward system regulation via nucleus accumbens

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Function of amygdala?

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Fear conditioning

Emotional regulation

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What are the medial temporal structures?

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Hippocampus
Amygdala
Entorhinal and Para hippocampal cortex

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21
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What structures are functionally related to basal ganglia but not part of structure?

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Substantia nigra

Subthalamic nuclei

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What are the important circuits in the basal ganglia?

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Motor
Oculomotor
Dorsolateral prefrontal (executive)
Anterior cingulate (motivation)
Lateral orbitofrontal (social intelligence)
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23
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What basal ganglia dysfunction causes OCD?

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Volumetric changes + higher blood flow to caudate nuclei.

Increased caudate metabolism reduces after effective treatment.

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What basal ganglia dysfunction is linked with bradykinesia in Parkinsonism?

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Striatal over activity

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What basal ganglia dysfunction is linked to Fahr’s disease?

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Progressive calcium deposition in basal ganglia.

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26
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Function of anterior thalamus

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Receives mamillothalami tract and fornix

Connects to cingulate cortex

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27
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What in the thalamus is associated with visual attention?

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Pulvinar

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28
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What is the ventromedial hypothalamus?

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Satiety center

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29
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Where is the feeding center?

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Lateral hypothalamus

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30
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What does the inferior olivary nucleus do?

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Aids in motor coordination by projecting climbing fibers to contralateral cerebellar cortex via inferior cerebellar peduncle

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Signs in inferior olivary nucleus lesions

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Appendicular ataxia due to motor incoordination of contralateral arm and leg
Fail finger-nose test

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32
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Function of cerebellum in schizophrenia

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Disrupted cortico-cerebellar circuity can lead to cognitive dysmetria - difficulty in coordinating and monitoring process of receiving, processing and expressing information

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33
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What is the midbrain made up of?

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Superior and inferior colliculi
Substantia nigra
Periaqueductal grey matter

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34
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What do the superior and inferior colliculi do?

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Superior - conjugate gaze control

Inferior - auditory source localization

35
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Anatomy of oculomotor nerve.

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Motor function.

Supplies 4/6 of ocular muscles

36
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Anatomy of trigeminal nerve

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Sensory + motor.
Transmits facial sensation
Controls jaw muscles

37
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Anatomy of facial nerve.

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Sensory + motor.
Transmits taste sensation
Controls facial muscles.

38
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Anatomy of glossopharyngeal nerve

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Motor control of pharynx
Parasympathetic control of parotid gland
Taste from back of tongue

39
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Anatomy of hypoglossal

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Motor control of tongue muscles

40
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What information does the spinothalamic tract carry?

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Touch
Pressure
Pain
Temperature

41
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How does CSF go from 4th ventricle to subarachnoid space

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Foramen of Magendie (single) and

Foramina of Luschka (two lateral)

42
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Where does obstruction to CSF commonly occur?

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3rd or 4th ventricle (Foramen of Monroe)

43
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What happens in communicating hydrocephalus?

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Impairment of CSF reabsorption in subarachnoid space due to partial occlusion of arachnoid villi

44
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What does the internal carotid artery divide into?

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Anterior cerebral and middle cerebral artery

45
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What does anterior cerebral artery supply?

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Medial and superior strip of lateral aspect of cerebral cortex up to parietal/occipital border

46
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What does the middle cerebral artery supply?

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Lateral aspect of cerebral cortex, including Broca’s and Wernicke’s in dominant hemispheres

47
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What does the posterior cerebral artery supply

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Inferomedial temporal lobe

Occipital lobe

48
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What supplies the medulla?

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Posterior inferior cerebellar arteries

Anterior spinal branches of vertebral arteries

49
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What supplies the pons?

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Basilar artery

50
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Signs of carotid system TIA

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Amaurosis fugax
Aphasia
Hemiparesis
Hemisensory loss
Hemianopic visual loss
51
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Signs of vertebrobasilar TIA

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Diplopia, vertigo, vomiting
Choking, dysarthria
Ataxia
Ataxia without agraphia
Hemisensory loss
Hemianopic visual loss
Transient global amnesia
Tetraparesis
LOC

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52
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Bilateral infarct of anterior cerebral artery results in which signs

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Quadriparesis (legs weaker than arms)
Akinetic mutism (ventromedial or cingulate syndrome)
53
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What supplies the caudate nucleus?

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Recurrent artery of Huebner (branch of anterior cerebral artery)

54
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Lesion effect of caudate nucleus

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Initially agitated, confused

Evolves to akinesia, abulia with mutism and personality changes

55
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What supplies the basal forebrain?

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Anterior communicating artery

56
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Signs of lesion in basal forebrain

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Akinesia
Personality change - orbitofrontal dysfunction
Confabulatory amnesia

57
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What supplies the lateral medulla?

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Posterior inferior cerebellar artery

58
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Lesion effect of lateral medulla or of thrombus in PICA?

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Wallenberg’s lateral medullary syndrome.
Acute vertigo with cerebellar signs.
Ipsilateral face numbness, diplopia, nystagmus
Horner’s syndrome
IX/X nerve palsy with contralateral spinothalamic sensory loss and mild hemiparesis

59
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Types of white matter pathways

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Projection fibers
Association fibers
Commissural fibers

60
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What are projection fibers?

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Run vertically, connecting higher and lower centers of the brain

61
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What are association fibers?

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Interconnect different regions within same hemisphere of brain

62
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What are commissural fibers?

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Interconnect similar regions in opposite hemisphere.

63
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What does the anterior commissure do?

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Interconnects olfactory bulbs

64
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What does the posterior commissure do?

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Interconnects midbrain pretectal nuclei

65
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What supplies anterior aspect and most of the body of the corpus callosum?

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Pericallosal artery (from anterior cerebral artery)

66
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Signs of vascular disruption to pericallosal artery?

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Left sided apraxia and agnosia

67
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Signs of vascular disruption to splenium?

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Alexia and color anomia

Preserved ability to copy words

68
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What does damage to Arcuate fasciculus result in?

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Conduction aphasia

69
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What is the uncinate fasciculus?

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Connects orbitofrontal cortex to anterior temporal lobs.

70
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Function of unicate fasciculus

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Social cognition

Language

71
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What makes up cortical neurons?

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75% is pyramidal neurons

25% are stellate cells - not in layer 1

72
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Which layer gives rise to association/commissural and projection fibres?

73
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What are Purkinje cells?

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Class of GABAergic neurons in cerebellar cortex only.

Connect to deep cerebellar nuclei via inhibitory projections.

74
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Function of purkinje cells?

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For sole output of all motor coordination in cerebellum.

75
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Examples of circum-ventricular organs

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Subfornical organ
Area postrema (chemoreceptor trigger zone)
Median eminence
Posterior pituitary

76
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Function of brainstem cholinergic pathway?

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Maintains wakefulness and REM sleep.

77
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Origination of brainstem cholinergic pathway?

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Originates from pedunculopontine and laterdorsal tegmental nuclei.

78
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What does brainstem cholinergic pathway innervate?

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Thalamic relay neurons

Reticular nuclei

79
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Where do noradrenergic pathways originate and ascend to?

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Originate in loculs coeruleus (pons)
Ascend to cortex via medial forebrain bundle
Descend to spinal cord

80
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Name two major cortical interneuron subtypes

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Parvalbumin-expressing interneurons (40%)

Somatostatin-expressing interneurons (30%) - Martinotti cells

81
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What can reduction in expression of parvalbumin-expressing interneurons lead to?

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Schizophrenia

82
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Subtypes of parvalbumin-expressing interneurons?

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Basket cells

Chandelier cells

83
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What are basket cells?

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Receive direct input from thalamocortical projections.

Form synapses with soma or dendrites of pyramidal neurons

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