Neurophys. - Parts of the brain that have come up in lectures

Question 1

Anterior Cingulate Cortex

Answer 1

The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is the frontal part of the cingulate cortex that resembles a “collar” surrounding the frontal part of the corpus callosum. It consists of Brodmann areas 24, 32, and 33.

It appears to play a role in a wide variety of autonomic functions, such as regulating blood pressure and heart rate.

It is also involved in certain higher-level functions, such as reward anticipation, decision-making, impulse control, and emotion.

Question 2

Basal Ganglia

Answer 2

control of voluntary motor movements, procedural learning, routine behaviors or “habits” such as bruxism, eye movements, cognition and emotion
Parkinsons, Huntingtons

Question 3

Supplementary motor area

Answer 3

Involved in planning motor control - shown activated when thinking about a repetitive movement

Question 4

Insular cortex

Answer 4

involved in consciousness and play a role in diverse functions usually linked to emotion or the regulation of the body’s homeostasis

Question 5

Parietal Cortex

Answer 5

Proprioception - bodies position in space

Stereognosis - (that feels like a book…)

Question 6

Wernicke’s area

Answer 6

involved in the comprehension or understanding of written and spoken language

Question 7

Broca’s area

Answer 7

involved in the production of speech

Question 8

Medial superior olive

Answer 8

Sound localisation - interaural time differences

Question 9

Lateral superior olive

Answer 9

Sound localisation - interaural intensity differences

Question 10

Hypothalamus

Answer 10

Control of the release of hormones (pituitary)

Homeostasis

Question 11

Hippocampus

Answer 11

Learning and memory

clever hippo

Question 12

Thalamus

Answer 12

its functions are the relaying of sensory and motor signals to the cerebral cortex,[2][3] and the regulation of consciousness, sleep, and alertness.