Quiz: CNS, PNS, ANS Flashcards
Nuclei of cranial nerves V, VI, and VII are found in the…
Pons of the brainstem
The arbor vitae refers to…
Cerebellar white matter
The brain stem consists of the…
Midbrain, Pons, Medulla
The primary auditory cortex is located in the…
Temporal lobe
Fissure that separates the cerebral hemispheres…
Longitudinal fissure
Shallow groove on the surface of the cortex…
Sulcus
The central sulcus separates the lobes…
Frontal and Parietal
Ridges of tissue on the surface of the cerebral hemispheres are…
Gyri
An example of where white matter would not be found…
Cerebral Cortex (as it’s completely grey matter)
Declarative memory is…
The ability to learn specific information
The meninges between which subarachnoid space lies…
Arachnoid and Pia mater
Cells that line the ventricles of the brain…
Ependymal cells
Vital centers for the control of heart rate, respiration and blood pressure are located in the…
Medulla oblongata
“Executive suite” best describes…
Cerebrum
Generalizations that can be said of the cerebral cortex include…
Contains three kinds of functional areas.
No functional area of the cortex works alone.
Each hemisphere is chiefly concerned with sensory and motor functions of the contralateral side of the body.
Cell bodies, dendrites and unmyelinated axons, but not fiber tracts, could be found in…
Cerebral Cortex
Roles include controlling, starting and stopping movements, regulating attention and cognition and inhibiting unnecessary or antagonistic movements, but not initiating protective reflex actions…
Basal Nuclei
Two terms for the massive motor tracts serving voluntary movement…
Pyramidal and corticospinal
Considered a motor speech area…
Broca’s area
The blood-brain barrier is effective against…
Metabolic waste such as urea
Hippocampus, amygdaloid nucleus and cingulate gyrus, but not the caudate nucleus, are structures of…
Limbic system
The brain area that regulates activities that control the state of wakefulness or alertness of the cerebral cortex is the…
Reticular formation
Injury to this structure causes loss of body temperature control, production of excessive quantities of urine and pathological sleep, but not loss of proprioception…
Hypothalamus
Important nuclei of the indirect (multineural) system that receive impulses from the equilibrium apparatus of the inner ear and help to maintain balance by varying muscle tone of postural muscles are the…
Vestibular nuclei
Tremor at rest, shuffling gait, stooped posture, and expressionless face are characteristics of…
Parkinson’s disease
Red nuclei are involved with…
Motor activity
Loss of ability to perform skilled motor activities such as piano playing, with no paralysis or weakness in specific muscles, might suggest damage to the…
Premotor cortex
Brain nucleus considered the body’s biological clock…
Suprachiasmatic nucleus
If the caudal portion of the neural tube failed to develop properly the…
Spinal cord may be affected
The area of the cortex that is responsible for sensations of the full bladder and the feeling that your lungs will burst when you hold your breath too long is the…
Visceral sensory area
Category of memory involved when playing the piano…
Procedural
Often genetically induced, but also frequently caused by head trauma, stroke, infection and tumor…
Epilepsy
Brain waves not typical for awake adults, but common for children…
Theta waves
The process of linking new facts with old facts already stored in the memory bank is called…
Association
REM sleep is associated with…
Temporary skeletal muscle inhibition except for ocular muscles and diaphragm
The structure without any direct involvement in memory out of the thalamus, prefrontal cortex, medulla and hippocampus is the…
Medulla
May be caused by widespread cerebral or brain stem trauma…
Coma
The two layers of meninges the subarachnoid space lies between are…
Arachnoid and pia mater
Functions of Cerebrospinal fluid…
Protection from blows, nourishment of the brain, reduction of brain weight
Of hemorrhage, swelling, contusion and concussion, the mildest consequence of brain trauma is…
Concussion
Spastic paralysis suggests involvement of…
Upper motor neurons
An individual who could trace a picture of a bicycle with his or her finger but could not recognize it as a bicycle is most likely to have sustained damage to the…
Visual association area
Carry proprioceptive inputs to the cerebellum…
Spinocerebellar tracts
Cell bodies of the sensory neurons of the spinal nerves are located in…
Dorsal root ganglia of the spinal cord
Neural tracts that convey life-saving information to the brain concerning burning pain would be…
Lateral spinothalamic
White matter of the spinal cord contains…
Myelinated and umyelinated nerve fibers
An individual accidentally transected the spinal cord between T1 and L1. This would result in…
Paraplegia
