the brain Flashcards

1
Q

cerebrum

A

“higher thinking” part. where all the lobes are. separated into two hemispheres.

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2
Q

deep longitudinal fissure

A

separates left and right hemispheres of cerebrum

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3
Q

gray matter cortex

A

outer layer of unmyelinated axons, cell bodies, and dendrites

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4
Q

tracts

A

unmyelinated bundles of axons

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5
Q

cerebellum

A

posterior inferior part of brain

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6
Q

brain stem

A

inferior stalk

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7
Q

frontal lobe

A

personality and judgement

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8
Q

parietal lobe

A

sensory receptors

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9
Q

temporal lobe

A

auditory centers and auditory memory

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10
Q

occipital lobe

A

visual centers and memories

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11
Q

insula lobe

A

deep to temporal lobe, memory

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12
Q

pineal gland

A

secretes hormones with cycle behaviors

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13
Q

pituitary gland

A

pea suspended on hypothalamus by hypophyseal stalk

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14
Q

cerebellum

A

two nuts connected by vermis, arbor vitae- white tree like white-matter branches in nuts.

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15
Q

choroid plexus

A

system of cells and vessels that produce CSF

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16
Q

arachnoid villi

A

reabsorbs CSF after full circulation

17
Q

order of CSF circulation in brain

A

lateral ventricles- interventrical foramen of monroe- third ventrical- cerebral adueduct of sylvius- fourth ventricle- central canal.

18
Q

cingulate gyrus

A

ridge superior to colpus collosum