THRC.6 Flashcards
The most rostral part of the rhinencephalon
Olfactory bulb
Where on the neurocranium is the olfactory bulb found?
Ethmoidal fossa
10
Olfactory peduncle
11
Lateral olfactory tract
- Continues caudally as the piriform lobe
12
Medial olfactory tract
Trigonum olfactorum
1
Olfactory bulb
8
Amygdaloid body
9
Piriform lobe
12
Piriform lobe
Summarise the limbic system
Collection of brain structures involved with emotional behaviour
Give the divisions of the limbic system
- Cortical part
- Subcortical part
Which structures make up the cortical part of the limbic system?
- Cingulate gyri
- Piriform lobe
- Hippocampus
Which structures make up the subcortical part of the limbic system?
- Components of the diencephalon
- Habenula
- Hypothalamus
- Thalamus
- Amygdaloid body
- Fornix
What is shown?
Diencephalon
Hippocampus
Crus of fornix
Mammilary body
Column of fornix
Splenium
Amygdala
The crura of the fornix are connected by…
Psalterium
A layer of white matter covering the internal surface of the hippocampus
Alveus
