The Human Brain Lab 2 Flashcards
What is the human brain dependant on?
Body mass
What sort of brain were we holding?
a plastinated brain
Infused with plastic
Dehydration of the brain –> resulting in exaggerated sulci
Real brain is soft and mushy, containing fluid
What were the sulci like on our brain that we held?
Exaggerated
Due to the dehydration of the brain when undergoing plastination
What were exagerated in our brain model?
Sulci
- due to dehydration
- normally soft and squishy and fluid filled
What does medial view mean?
Down the midline
-runs down the longitudinal fissure of the brain which separates the left and right hemispheres
What is the “down the midline” view?
Medial view
Where is the longitudinal fissure?
runs LONG through the brain, LONGITUDINALLY down the middle separating the 2x Left and Right Hemispheres
-opened/exposes you see the medial view
What is the fissure which separates the right and left hemispheres of the brain?
Longitudinal fissure
What is the Corpus callosum made out of?
White matter
Commisural fibre
L and R
connects the 2x sides -(same as A.W.Commissure)
allows COMMUNICATION between the 2x sides of the brain
Is the Corpus callosum a commisural, association or projection fibre?
CC Commisural
L and R
Connects the 2x hemispheres
White mater tract
allows COMMUNICATION between both hemispheres
-similar to the AWC anterior white COMMISURE connecting both halves of the spinal cord
What are the 3x types of communication between the brain?
CAP
Commisural fibres
Association fibres
Projection tracts
What are the 2x examples of commisural fibres?
CCC Corpus Callosum
AWCCC anterior white Commissure
Commisural fibres, connect the L and R sides, allows CCCCCOMMINICATION between the 2x Left and Right hemispheres of the brain
What is the 1x example of association fibres?
Arcuate fascicles (connects the Wernickes in Temporal lobe to Brocas in Frontal lobe)
Front and back of the brain
connects different lobes of the brain
What is the 1x example of projection fibres?
Internal capsule
Up and down
White matter high way, which carries Sensory/motor information
What parts of the brain do projection fibres connect?
Up and down
sensory and motor highway for information
What are examples of sensory and motor white matter highways for information?
HIGH = UP = projection fibres- which go Up and down
Internal capsule
What parts of the brain to commissural fibres connect?
Left and Right sides Allows for communication White matter tract CCCCCCorpus Callosum AWCCCCCCC
What parts of the brain do association fibres connect?
Front and back
Connects different Lobes
e.g. Arcuate fasiculus connects Temporal Lobed’ Wernickes area and Frontal Lobed’ Brocas area
What are the 5x components of the Forebrain’s Superficial part of the Hemisphere?
- Cortex
- Corpus Callosum
- Parieto-occipital sulcus
- Calcarine sulcus
- Primary visual cortex
What are the view of the Parieto-occipital sulcus?
Landmark gap/sulcus between the parietal and occipital lobe
Extends down on the Lateral side (outer exterior side view)
More obvious from the medial view
Where is the Parieto Occipital sulcus more obvious?
in the Medial view (as you learn from the inside) ::)
What is the calcarine sulcus?
Groove/gap running through the middle of the primary visual cortex
What is the primary visual cortex?
Is on either side of the calcarine sulcus
Receives and perceives visual information
Central = Tip CT
Peripheral = deep PD
Cone shaped
What shape is the primary visual cortex?
Cone shaped
What structures in the Forebrain’s Superficial part of the hemisphere is cone shaped?
Primary visual cortex
which is on either side of the calcarine sulcus
What does the cortex, Corpus callosum, Parieto-Occipital sulcus, Calcarine sulcus and Primary visual cortex collectively make?
Forebrain’s superficial part of the heispher
What does the Forebrain’s Basal ganglia of the hemisphere consist of?
- Parts are difficult to see
- buried deep into the hemispheres
- HEAD of the Caudate nucleus potentially possible to see. It bulges against the wall of the lateral ventricle
What is the potential part of the forebrain’s basal ganglia that you could see that isn’t deeply buried hidden in the hemisphere?
HEAD of the CAUDATE NUCLEUS
bulge on the wall of the LAteral Ventricle
What is a bulge on the wall of the lateral ventricle?
HEAD of the CAUDATE nucleus- the only part of the basal ganglia which you can see /isn’t buried deep hidden in the hemisphere from the medial view
Where is the caudate nucleus seen in the medial view and which part of the caudate nucleus is seen?
in the LATERAL ventricle
- only part of the basal ganglia seen from the medial view which isn’t buried deep hidden from view
- the HEAD of the caudate nucleus
What are the 5x elements of the Forebrain’s diencephalon?
- Thalamus
- Hypothalmus
- Mammillary body
- Pituitary Gland
- Third ventricle
Where is the Thalamus located?
Forebrain’s diencephalon
Thalamus has the intermediate mass between it
And the 3rd ventricle on top and below if the intermediate mass, with the thalamus on either side
Where is the intermediate mass located?
Between the Thalamus of either lobe
Has the 3rd ventricle above and below the intermediate mass, on the inside of the 2x thalamus
What is above and below of the intermediate mass, with the Thalamus on either side?
3rd ventricle
Where is the Hypothalamus located?
Forebrain’s diencephalon
What are the main functions of the hypothalamus?
controls INTERNAL body functions and AUTONOMIC nervous system e.g. Temperature control
senses are recieved and respond accordingly e.g. vasodilation, sweating
Where in the brain is the control of body functions?
Hpoythalamus
Where in the brain is the control of autonomic nervous system?
Hypothalamus
Where is the mammilary body located?
Forebrain’s Diencephalon
What is the function of the mammilary body?
Olfactory (smell) recognition
Where in the body is the recognition of smell?
Mammillary body
- Olfactory (smell) recognition
- adds smell sensation to memory
- reflux response to smell
Where in the body is olfactory recognition>
Mammillary body
-smell/olfactory recognition in the Forebrain’s diencephalon of the brain
Where is the Pituitary gland located?
Forebrain’s Diencephalon
What is the function of the Pituitary gland?
attached to the hypothalamus (via infundibulum)
Controlled by hormone secretion
Protected well in the skull, but is torn off when the skull is removed
When is the pituitary gland well protected?
When the skull is all attached
Where is the 3rd ventricle located?
Forebrain’s diencephalon
- it is the Ventricle of the diencephalon
- Narrow vertical cleft on the midline
- only visible as a slight depression on the thalamus
- fuiled with CSF (CSF filled cavity)
What add smell sensation to the memory?
Mammillary body
in the forebrain’s diencephalon
What causes reflux response to smell?
Mammillary body
What is the ventricle of the diencephalon?
3rd ventricle
What is the CSF filled cavity in the brain?
Third ventricle
IS the ventricle of the diencephalon
What is the 3rd ventricle cavity like?
Narrow Verticle Cleft on the midline
What is a Narrow Vertical Cleft on the midline?
NVC 3rd ventricle
What does NVC stand for?
The ventricle of the diencephalon (the third ventricle) being the Narrow Vertical Cleft on the midline
Is the 3rd ventricle filled or empty of CSF?
The 3rd ventricle IS FILLED with CSF (a CSF filled cavity) in the brain
What is the slight depression overlying the lateral ventricle?
The third ventricle
IS a NVC Narrow vertical cleft which has a slight depression overlying the lateral ventricle
What are the 3x components of the Midbrain?
- Superior and Inferior colliculi
- Cerebral Aqueduct
- Cerebral peduncles
Where are the Superior and Inferior Colliculi located?
In the Mid brain
What is the function of the superior and inferior colliculi?
Both are the “Roof” of the MIDbrain
overal is involved with Reflex response
Superior c : S IIII has a minor visual control of eye movemnt
Inferior c : has a minor hearing control of movemments in response to auditory stimuli