PSYO Exam 1 Flashcards
Nerves as wires: Dorsal & Ventral roots
Dorsal= sensory Ventral= Motor
Phrenology
Head bumps= personality
cerebellum
Responsible for movement
Language impairment (Broca)
broca’s area= speech production
Charles Darwin
Natural selection
Robert Hooke
Cell Theory (1839)
Santiago Ramon U Cajai
Neuron Doctrine= neuron is the structural & functional unit of the NS
Camillo Golgi
Golgi Stain (1873)= Visualize nervous tissue under light microscopy Golgi appartus, tendon origin= helps process and package proteins and lipid molecules, especially proteins destined to be exported from the cell.
Neuroanatomy: Neuroimaging
Staining & Photos were early techniques
Structural imaging
CT/CAT
MRI
-) Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)= Traces flow of water in the brain to visualize white matter structures
Functional imaging:
PET
FMRI= blood flow in the brain
Measuring brain activity
EEG
Jargon
Nucleus= Collection of neurons in the CNS Ganglion= Collection of neurons in the PNS Tract= Bundle of axons in the CNS Nerve= Bundle of axons in the PNS
protective barriers for the brain
Meninges:
- Dura matter (Leather texture)
- Arachnoid Membrane (looks like spider webs)
- Pia matter (separated by subarachnoid space)= Filled with cerebrial spinal fluid
- Close proximity to the brain
medial surface of the brain
- Cingulate gyrus= physical & emotional pain
- Corpus callosum
- Amygdala
- Hippocampus
Jargon:
Sulcus= small groove Gyrus= ridge of cortex Fissure= Large groove
Cortical Structures:
most of the cortex that covers the cerebral hemispheres is neocortex.
Primary sensory areas:
- Somatosensory: Postcentral gyrus (touch)
- Visual: Posterir occipital lobe
- Auditory: Temporal lobe
Primary Motor Areas:
Precentrial Gyrus
Association Areas (Largest proportion of cortex in humans)
- The insula= involved in movement, language, taste, regulating bodies internal environment.
Vision: Retinal Organization
retina-) Lateral geniculate nucleus (Thalamus) -) Area 17/VI/Striate cortext (1 degree visual cortex) -) 2 dozen other cortical areas (occipital, temporal, parietal)
Rods & Cones
5 million cones (coloured vision)
100 million rods (colourless vision)