Structures Flashcards
Temporal lobe
Hearing, long term memory, and language comprehension
Frontal lobe
Intelligence, problem solving, short term memory, language, motor planning, and mathematical calculations
Parietal lobe
Sensory detection, perception, and interpretation
Occipital lobe
Interpretations visual stimuli
Limbic lobe
Emotion, memory, and olfaction (smell)
Insula
Taste, respiration, and interpreting music
Central sulcus
Separates frontal and parietal lobes
Lateral fissure
Separates frontal and temporal lobes
Parieto-occipital sulcus
Separates parietal and occipital lobes
Cerebral cortex
Processes sensory/motor information, intelligence, reasoning, language, memory, and personality
Red nucleus
Lies in the midbrain
Sends axons to motor neurons in the cervical spinal cord
Cerebellum
Coordinates movement, practice-related learning, timing & fluidity of speech
Peduncles
Large bundles of fibers connecting cerebellum to posterior brain stem
Diencephalon
Thalamus, hypothalamus, epithalamus
Thalamus
Nucleus relays information to cerebral cortex
Processes memory, emotional information, visual information, touch, and hearing
Hypothalamus
Regulates eating, sleeping, waking, thirst, and fullness
Controls body temperature
Regulates reproductive behavior
White Matter
The Less Clumsy Funny Pretty Cousin
Tracts
Leminiscus
Column
Fasciculus
Peduncle
Capsule
Cranial meninges
Face The Facts
Dural infoldings
Falx Cerebri
Tentorium Cerebelli
Falx Cerebelli
Cranial Nerves
On Occasion Our Thirsty Truck Acts Funny Very Good Vehicle Any How
CN I Olfactory
CN II Optic
CN III Oculomotor
CN IV Trochlear
CN V Trigeminal
CN VI Abducens
CN VII Facial
CN VIII Vestibulocochlear
CN IX Glossopharyngeal
CN X Vagus
CN XI Accessory
CN XII Hypoglossal
Oligodendrocytes
Macroglia that produce the myelin sheath
