Week 2 - Study Guide Flashcards
Nerves
Bundles of fibers (a bunch of axons)
OUTSIDE THE CNS
Tracts
- Bundles of fibers (a bunch of axons)
IN THE CNS - Ascending - sensory in to CNS
- Descending - CNS to motor output
Ganglia
- Nerve cell bodies in PNS
- Around the spinal cord
Nuclei
- Nerve cell bodies in CNS
- in core of brain
- Processing information
- Surrounded by white matter
White Matter
- Axons
- Cable connecting all processors of white
- Myelinated axons or dendrites
- Deeper in brain
- Cable connecting parts
- Also called Tracts
Corpus Callosum
- Connects R & L hemispheres
- Projection pathways allowing the cortex to send motor outputs towards the spinal cord to PNS
Gray Matter
- cell bodies
- Powerhouse Processors
- non-myelinated
- edge of cortex
- processing
- integration
CNS Regions of the Brain
- Cerebrum - outer
- Diencephalon - core
- Brain Stem - brain/spinal cord
- Cerebellum - tiny brain
Ventricles - connect the 4 brain regions
1 & 2 - Lateral Ventricles - cerebral hemispheres (looks like horns of ram)
- in the diencephalon - in between the two sides of the thalamus
- hindbrain - in between the pons and the cerebellum
What disease is associated with the ventricles
Cerebral Palsy
Shunt to drain fluid into the abdominal cavity
What are the ventricles lined with?
Ependymal cells
which have cilia
What are the ventricles filled with
CSF
What are meninges?
Tough, useful membranes that have multiple layers that surround the brain
Protection for the brain
Bone, CSF, BBB
What do the membranes do?
- Cover the CNS
- Adhere blood vessels to the brain
- Contains CSF
- Form partitions in the skull
What are the three types of meninges?
- Dura Mater
- Arachnoid Mater
- Pia Mater
Dura Mater
- Outer layer
- Strong Fibrous CT
- Holds brain and spinal cord to bone
- Sack encloses the brain and spinal cord provising some protection
Arachnoid Mater
- Spider Web
- Middle Layer
- Light fibrous material off of dura mater
- Connects to Pia Mater
What is the subarachnoid space?
Space In between the arachnoid mater where the location of the CSF will travel
What is CSF composes of?
- Watery solution - intra & extracellular
- Modified from plasma - less electrolyte and protein
- Constant volume is the goal
Functions of the CSF
- Buoyancy to CNS
- Protects CNS from trauma
- Nourishment & Chemical signals
What is CSF produced by?
Choroid plexus - blood vessel
CSF circulation -
- Choroid Plexus makes CSF
- CSF flow into the ventricles
- from lateral ventricles
- down to 3rd ventricle
- to cerebral aqueduct
- to 4th ventricle
- to the subarachnoid space
- back toward teh top of the head
- CSF is absorbed into the dural venous sinuses via the arachnoid villi
Arachnoid Villi
Location where the CSF leaves the CNS region back into a vein called the Dural Venous Sinus
Dural Venous Sinus
Vein where the CSF leaves the CNS and enters the Dural Venous Sinus
External Hydrocephalus
- External Blockage
- Build up of fluid in subarachnoid space pushing inward on the brain
- Compresses brain
Internal Hydrocephalus
- Internal Blockage
- Fluid would start to back up causing internal pressure
Compression inside out - Ventricles out
- Expands
CSF Issues
Spina bifida
Cerberal Palsy - shunt drain into abdomen
The Brains Convolutions
folds of the surface of the brain
Cortex Convolutions
Surface of the brain
Gyri
Bumps
Sulci
Shallow groove
Opposite of bump
Fissure
Deeper Groove
Deep Dividing Line
Central Sulcus
- Divides Frontal Lobe from Parietal Lobe
- where you go from motor activity in frontal cortex to the sensory processing of the parietal lobe
Lateral Sulcus
Dividing line between the temporal lobe and frontal lobe
Cerebral longitudinal fissure
- Divides the L and R cerebral hemispheres
- Place that connects the sides of the hemispheresTr
Transverse Fissures
- Divides cerebellum (baby brain) from Occipital Lobe and Temporal Lobe above it
- Divides Cerebellum below from cerebrum above
- Things above the fissure are cerebrum
- Things below cerebellum and brain stem
Cerebrum
Referring to the cortex of all the lobes and the diencephalon (omitting the cerebellum and brain stem)
4 Brain Regions
- Cerebrum
- Diencephalon
- Brain Stem
- Cerebellum