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Task 4 - Cerebral Cortex Flashcards

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Cerebral cortex lobes

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Frontal
Parietal
Temporal
Occipital
Limbic
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Subcortical fiber bundles

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Connect cortical areas:

  • Association fibers
  • Commissural fibers
  • Ascending/descending projection fibers
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Histological Cortex Organization

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Organized in layers:
Neocortex: 6 layers I-VI
-> enables thought
Older cortical areas only 3 layers: 
-paleocortex
-archicortex
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Paleocortex

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Olfactory bulb, uncus, anterior commissure

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Archicortex

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Hippocampus, dentate gyrus

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Pyramidal Neurons

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  • in layers III and V
  • triangular structure: 1 apical dendrite and abundant dendritic trees coming from cell body
  • main output cells of cortex: project into other brain regions and spinal cord
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Granular Neurons

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  • in layers II and IV
  • stellate neurons
  • shorter axons, smaller dendritic trees
  • remain in cortex
  • > main interneurons of cortex
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Layer I

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Molecular layer

contains neuronal processes

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Layer VI

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Multiform layer

contains output neurons

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Agranular Cortex

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Mainly contains pyramidal neurons projecting to lower motor neurons (e.g. primary motor cortex)
-> not many granular neurons

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Granular Cortex

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Mainly contains granular neurons processing sensory information (e.g. primary sensory cortex)
-> few pyramidal cells

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Cytoarchitecture

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Cortex is organized into functional units

  • > cortical columns
  • columns specizalized to process specific inputs or outputs (depends on function)
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Cortical layers

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I: molecular layer
II: external granular layer
III: external pyramidal layer
IV: internal granular layer
V: Internal pyramidal layer
VI: Multiform layer
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Subcortical fiber bundle function

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Relay information to and from specific brain areas

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Association fibers

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Interconnect areas within one hemisphere:

  • short association fibers: connect areas in adjacent gyri
  • long association fibers: connect areas more distant from each other
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Commissural fibers

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Connect cortical areas of one hemisphere with the same ones in the opposite hemisphere
-> enables coordination of cortical activity across hemispheres

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Anterior commissure

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Connects anterior temporal lobes and olfactory bulbs with each other

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Posterior Commissure

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In midbrain, connects pretectal nuclei

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Projection fibers

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Travel to or from the cortex: ascending or descending

  • descend to: basal ganglia, brainstem, spinal cord
  • converge in internal capsule
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Brodmann’s cortical organization

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  • divided human cortex into 43 cytoarchitectonic areas
  • each area labelled by number between 1-52 (areas 12-16, 48-51 not found in human cortex)
  • > cytoarchitectonic map
  • > architectonic units of Brodmann later linked to functional areas of the brain with neuroimaging
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Axoplasmic Transport

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Movement of organelles, lipids, proteins, synaptic vesicles and other parts of cell membranes to and from the soma down the axon to synapses and back to soma
-> essential to growth and survival of neuron

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Microtubules

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  • run along length of axon

- provide main cytoskeletal tracks for axoplasmic transport

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Motor proteins

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Move axoplasmic transport cargo to axon and back to soma

  • kinesin & dynein
  • bind and transport different cargos: mitochondria, cytoskeletal polymers, synaptic vesicles containing neurotransmitters
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Anterograde axoplasmic transport

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Facilitated by Kinesin

  • movement of organelles outward (from soma to axon tip)
  • cargo moved in transport vesicles along microtubules mediated by kinesin
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Kinesin

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Anterograde motor protein

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Dynein

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Retrograde motor protein

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Retrograde axoplasmic transport

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Movement of molecules/organelles inward: from axon tip to soma

  • cargo moved in transport vesicles mediated by dynein
  • source of recycling of many substances + informs soma of conditions at axon terminal
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Tracing

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Injection of substance and imaging of its metabolization

  • > importatn for mapping connectivity between brain areas
  • provides specific insights where input to field comes from and where it projects to
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Disadvantages Tracing

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  • injection site never perfectly matches field of interest
  • substances often spread into adjacent fields
  • substances affect various neurons in injection cells -> not only targeted neurons
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1st Major principle of Large-Scale functional organization

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Characterized by non-random, small-world, modular global brain architecture with strategic hub regions regulating communication among different functional systems

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2nd Major priniple of large-scale functional organization

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Large-Scale functional organization underlies strong interhemispheric connectivity with gradient of decreasing left-right connectivity from sensory to association and hetermodal cortices

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3rd Major principle of large-scale functional organization

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Human brain is intrinsically organized into coherent functional networks

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4th major principle of large-scale functional organization

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Functional brain organization is characterized by tasks- and context-dependent activated and deactivated brain systems (-> limited parallel processing to restrict neural resources)

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5th major principle of large-scale functional organization

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Default-mode network:

  • large scale network formed by most widely deactivated regions
  • tightly functionally and structurally interconnected
  • important for self-referential information processing and monitoring of internal mental landscape
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6th major principle of large-scale functional organization

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Core prefrontal parietal control systems can be separated into distinct brain networks with distinct roles:

  • salience network
  • central executive network
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Small-world architecture

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Network in which constituent nodes have a large degree of clustering and relatively short distances between two nodes
-> promotes high specialization and high integration within modular architecture

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Cortical hubs

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Brain areas communicating information across different brain systems within a small-world architecture
e.g. posterior cingulate cortex: facilitates rapid integration of information across multiple functional systems

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Bias of interhemispheric connectivity

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Left hemisphere: bias toward stronger intrahemispheric connectivity
Right hemisphere: bias toward stronger interhemispheric connectivity
-> consistent with laterlization for language and bilateral visuospatial attention networks

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Interhemispheric connectivity gradient

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Highest interhemispheric interaction strength: primary sensorimotor cortices

  • lower correlations across heteromodal association areas
  • lower correlations across heteromodal association areas
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Default-Mode Network

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Anchored in posterior cingulate cortex and medial prefrontal cortex

  • set of brain regions deactivated during wide range of cognitive tasks
  • linked to: episodic memory, autobiographical memory, internal speech
  • > construction of mental models of personally significant events
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Fronto-Opercular-Parietal Control Systems

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Salience Network

Central executive network

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Salience Network

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Anchored in anterior insular and anterior cingulate cortex

  • integrated brain signals of conflict-monitoring, interoceptive-autonomic, and reward-processing areas
  • > identification of homeostatically relevant stimuli to guide behavior
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Central Executive Network

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Frontoparietal network anchored in dorsolateral & ventrolateral prefrontal cortices and supramarginal gyrus in lateral parietal cortex
-> critical for active maintenance and manipulation of information in working memory
(rule-based problem solving, decision-making in goal-directed behavior)

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Interaction between Salience and Central Executive Networks

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Regulate shifts in attentions and access to goal-relevant cognitive resources

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