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The whole brain Flashcards

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How many neurons in the brain?

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85 billion

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How many glia in the brain?

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At least 85 billion

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How many synapses per neuron?

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1-10 thousand

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The brain along with the spinal cord makes up which part of the nervous system?

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Central nervous system (CNS)

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What part of the nervous system makes up all nerves outside the brain and spinal cord?

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Peripheral nervous system (PNS)

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What are the three primary brain divisions?

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Forebrain (prosencephalon)
Midbrain (mesencephalon)
Hindbrain (rhombencephalon)

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What do we call the structure connecting the two hemispheres?

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Corpus callosum

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What are some functions associated with the hindbrain?

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  • connects brain to spinal cord
  • deep nuclei for vital functions
  • control head and neck muscles
  • reticular formation for arousal
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What are the three major levels of the brainstem?

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  • myencephalon (hindbrain)
  • metencephalon (hindbrain)
  • mesencephalon (midbrain)
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True/false the cerebellum has more neurons than the rest of the brain combined.
How much weight of the brain does the cerebellum take up?

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True

10%

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Name some functions associated with the cerebellum.

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  • Coordination of voluntary movement
  • balance
  • motor learning
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Name some functions associated with the cerebrum?

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  • Voluntary motor control
  • Sensory and motor processing
  • executive function
  • learning
  • planning
  • emotion
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What are the small structures visible on the medulla?

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Cranial nerves

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How many cranial nerves are there?

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12

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What major endocrine glands are located in the diencephalon?

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Pineal gland

Pituitary gland

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What is the function of the pineal gland?

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Melatonin production,

Sleep cycle,

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What is the structure and function of the pituitary gland?

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Structure: neural portion(posterior) and glandular portion (anterior), midline structure under hypothalamus, in sella turcica
Function: controls other glands, lactation, stress, growth & reproduction, blood pressure

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What is the structure and function of the thalamus?

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Structure: lobed, comprised of interconnected nuclei.
Function: relay station for sensory info

19
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Which thalamic nucleus processes visual info?

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Lateral geniculate nucleus

20
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Which thalamic nucleus processes audio info?

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Medial geniculate nucleus

21
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Which thalamic nucleus processes somatosensory info?

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Ventroposterior nucleus

22
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What is the myencephalon?

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  • Primarily axon tracts carrying info between body and brain
  • Part of the hindbrain - medulla oblongata
  • Controls vital functions e.g. heart rate, breathing
  • contains portion of reticular formation
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What is the metencephalon?

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  • Tracts of nerves that form part of reticular formation
  • Pons-vital functions relay centre
  • Cerebellum-voluntary motor control
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What is the mesencephalon?

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  • Midbrain

- Contains tectum and tegmentum

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What is the tectum and where is it located? What does it contain?

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  • contains superior and inferior colliculi (visual and audio orienting of attention respectively)
  • Located in mesencephalon, anterior to tegmentum
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What is the tegmentum and where is it located?

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  • periaqueductal grey matter and substantia nigra

- located in mesencephalon posterior to tectum

27
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What is the diencephalon?

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-contains thalamus and hypothalamus, limbic system, epithalamus

28
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What is the lateral geniculate nucleus and where is it located?

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  • First synapse after the optic nerve leaves the eye
  • in the thalamus
  • visual sensory processing
29
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What is the function of the hypothalamus?

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Controls pituitary gland

30
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What is the limbic system

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  • The four f’s: fighting, fleeing, feeding and reproduction
  • part of the diencephalon
  • seat of emotion
  • Contains amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus, hypothalamus, basal ganglia and cingulate gurus
31
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What is the tencephalon

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It is the cerebrum (see cerebrum card)

32
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What are the basal ganglia?

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  • group of nuclei lying deep in the subcortical white matter of the frontal lobes
  • organising motor behaviour and coordinated, rule based habit learning
33
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What is grey matter?

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Most of the brain’s neural cell bodies

34
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What is white matter?

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Most of the brain’s axons

35
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What disease is linked to basal ganglia damage

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Parkinson’s disease

36
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What are sulci and gyri?

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Sulci-valleys in cortex (LATERAL)

Gyri-mountains in cortex

37
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What are fissures, commisures and ventricles?

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Fissures-valleys in brain (CORONAL)
Commisures - groups of axons that connect the two hemispheres
Ventricles

38
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What is the role of the oligodendrocyte/schwann cell?

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Facilitate saltatory conduction, myelination, regeneration

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What is the function of the substantia nigra? Where is it located?

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Reward and movement, ventral to the amygdala inside the mesencephalon

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What is the function of the superior and inferior colliculi and where are they located?

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Sup - Converting visual signals to plan movement - orienting the animal’s position to best pick up signals.
Inf- same except with audio
Location: midbrain

41
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What happens when you split the brain (commisurotomy/callosotomy)

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Principle 1: in callosotomy, information from one hemisphere does not flow to the other
Principle 2: The two hemispheres process information in different ways. Left is language hemisphere therefore information presented to the right hemisphere does not get translated into language but still is known what it is.

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What happens when myelin/glia are damaged? What are its symptoms?

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Multiple Sclerosis. Symptoms:
Visual: blurred and double vision, flashes
Motor: muscle weakness, slurred speech, muscle wastage, poor posture, tics
Sensory: numbness, tingling, pain
Coordination and balance: not good
Cognitive: short and long term memory loss, forgetfulness, slowed recall

43
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What are 2 types of glial tumors?

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Astrocytoma, glioblastoma multiforme, acoustic schwannoma (gliomas)

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