Physiology Flashcards
Fxn of frontal lobe?
- reasoning, problem solving, parts of speech, movement, and emotion
(prefrontal: is planning, consequences of action)
Fxn of parietal lobe?
- perception of stimuli, orientation, recognition of stimuli and movement
Fxn of temporal lobe?
- memory, perception/recognition of auditory stimuli and speech
Fxn of occipital lobe?
- visual processing
Fxn of basal ganglia?
- voluntary motor movemnt, coordination, cognition and emotion
Cerebrum fxn?
- cerebral cortex: higher brain fxn: thought and action, controls all voluntary activity with help of cerebellum
Limbic system?
- thalamus, hypothalamus, and amygdala(in temporal lobe, memory, emotion and fear), and hippocampus (learning, memory, converts short term memory into long memory)
Diencephalon 2 parts and fxns?
- thalamus: deep in forebrain, processes almost all of sensory and motor info, relays info to and from overlying cortex, last relay site to all sensory input (except olfaction) before this info reaches cortex
- hypothalamus: base of forebrain - controls homeostasis
Brainstem parts and fxn?
- contrls vital life fxns: breathing, HR and BP
- midbrain: controls eye movement, relays visual and auditory info
- pons: regulates breathing, relay station b/t cerebral hemisphere and medulla (involved in motor control and sensory output)
- medulla oblongata: extension of spinal cord, regulates vital body fxns (along with pons - HR, breathing, autonomic centers, swallowing, coughing)
Fxn of cerebellum?
- maintains posture and balance, coord voluntary movement and control of head and eye movement
What are the brain motor descending pathways?
- pyramidal (fine, isolated precise movements)
- extrapyramidal (gross synergistic movements)
Fxn of pyramidal system (direct pathway)?
- directly reaches target in brainstem or spinal cord with only 1 synapse with cranial nerve (in brainstem) with the lower motor neuron in the spinal cord (anterior horn), direct connection allows for faster impulse transmission
fxn: controls fine, precise body movements of head, neck and limbs (muscle groups that require concentration and conscious control)
What is the extrapyramidal system? Fxn?
- indirect pathway (multisynaptic): don’t reach their targets by traveling through the pyramids and they make more than 1 synapse.
- fxn: controls gross movement and autonomic movements involving larger muscles groups.
- selective activation of movement and suppression of other movements ot prevent erratic movements
- initiate movements, and coordiante movements
- coord with ANS to help with posture and muscle tone, has more effect on midline structures instead of peripheral, controls facial expression (why parkinson pt has little facial expression)
What makes up the PNS? FXN?
- CNs and spinal nerves
- fxn: communication lines b/t CNS and rest of body
What makes up the CNS? FXN?
- brain and spinal cors
- integrative and control centers
Sensory (afferent) division of PNS?
- somatic and visceral sensory nerve fibers
- conducts impulses from receptors to CNS
Motor (efferent) division of PNS? 2 sep divisions of this?
- motor nerve fibers
- conducts impulses from the CNS to effectors (muscles and glands)
- ANS and SNS
ANS fxn?
- visceral motor control (involuntary)
- conducts impulses from CNS to cardiac muscles, smooth muscles and glands
- has sympathetic division: mobilizes body systems during activity
- has parasympathetic: conserves energy, promtes housekeeping fxns during rest
SNS fxn?
- somatic motor (voluntary)
- conducts impulses from CNS to skeletal muscles
How does neural tube form?
- neural plate forms from surface ectoderm
- neural plate invaginates, forming neural groove, flanked by neural folds
- neural fold cells migrate to form neural crest, which will form much of PNS and many other structures
Prosencephalon (forebrain) will become?
- telencephalon: cerebrum
- diencephalon (thalamus, hypothalamus)
Mensencephalon (midbrain) will become?
- brain stem
Rhombencephalon (hindbrain) becomes?
- Metencephalon: brain stem: pons, and cerebellum
- myelencephalon: brain stem: medulla oblongata
How does an AP work?
- all or none event: threshold voltage is usually 15 mV positive to resting potential
- initiated by depolarization, APs can be induced in nerve and muscle by extrinsic (percutaneous) sim
- APs don’t summate, info coded by frequency not amplitude
- have constant conduction velocity
- APs only occur at nodes: increased velocity, and energy conservation