Telencephalon And Meninges Flashcards
Gustatory cortex is part of?
Insula
What percent of the cortex is involved in association and cognition?
80%
Corpus callous comprises of?
Genu
Body
Splenium
Why are basal ganglia important?
For control of posture and movement
Where is basal ganglia?
Base of forebrain
Corpus striatum splits into?
Lentiform nucleus- putamen and globus pallidus
Caudate nucleus
Basal ganglia connect with?
Motor cortex and substantia nigra in the midbrain
Caudate nucleus sits in?
Wall of lateral ventricle
What does internal capsule do?
Connects cortex to brainstem
Where does hippocampus sit?
In floor of lateral ventricle
What connects the hippocampus and mammillary bodies?
White matter tract- fornix
Where can amygdala be found?
At tip of the inferior horn of lateral ventricle
Cranial dura consists of 2 layers?
Endosteal layer- lines inside of cranium
Meningeal layer- lines brain and spinal cord
What is blood supply to dura?
Middle meningeal artery, which is branch of maxillary from external carotid
Where does the MMA SIT?
IN THE ENDOSTEAL LAYER OF THE DURA
What is the nerve supply to the dura?
Trigeminal 5 nerve
But vagus nerve and cervical spinal nerves 1-3
What is special about dura?
Only part of the CNS with a sensory supply
Meningeal layer of dura splits cranial cavity into compartments through?
Flax cerebri- separates the cerebral hemispheres
Tentorium cerebell- cerebellar from cerebral hemispheres
And falx cerebelli
Extradural?
Trauma to MMA
Subdural?
Trauma to cerebral veins
Transtentorial herniation?
Displacement of brain through opening in tentorium cerebelli
Caused by brain injury or tumour
Arachnoid and pia are called?
Leptomeninges
Dura venous sinuses are found?
Between endosteal and meningeal layers of dura.
They drain blood and CSF from brain into internal jugular veins
Network of dura venous sinuses?
- Superior Sagitta
- Inferior Saggital becoming straight
- Then occipital
1,2,3 and 4 become confluence of sinuses 5 - Carvenosus becomes superior petrosal
Confluence becomes transverse which joins with petrosal and becomes sigmoid
Then internal jugular vein
Sinuses drain blood from?
Cranium via diploid veins
Extracranial sites via emissary veins
Brain via cerebral veins
Which veins provide route of infection into cranial cavity?
Emissary
What passes through carvenous sinuses?
CN3-6 and internal carotid arteries
Carvenous sinus receives blood from?
Cerebral veins, emissary veins, ophthalmic veins and sphenoparietal sinus