week 3 (brain structure)

Question 1

What is the anterior view?

Answer 1

The front view of the brain

Question 2

What is the dorsal view?

Answer 2

the view of the brain from the top

Question 3

What is the posterior view

Answer 3

The view of the brain from the back

Question 4

What is the ventral view

Answer 4

The view of the brain from the bottom

Question 5

List all the lobes of the brain and where they are

Answer 5

Frontal (front), Parietal, (middle top), occipital (back) temporal (bottom)

Question 6

What is the midbrain bundle?

Answer 6

The middle of the brain, connected to forebrain. filled with the ‘leftover’ stuff not taken up by the forebrain or hindbrain lol

Question 7

What is the forebrain bundle?

Answer 7

Sits above the midbrain in the cebral cortex. cerebrum, thalamus, hypothalamus, pituitary gland, limbic system, and the olfactory bulb

Question 8

What is the hindbrain bundle.

Answer 8

The cerebrum stuff, the medulla, pons, cranial nerves too

Question 9

Limbic system

Answer 9

Amygdala and hippocampus. Probably memory and our nervous system

Question 10

What is the Cerebral cortex:

Answer 10

The cauliflower brian bit we see, goes about 7-20mm deep. The division between the two hemipsheres is called the longitiduinal fissures.

Question 11

What are granula cells?

Answer 11

Sensory neurons

Question 12

What are agranula cells

Answer 12

motor neurons

Question 13

What is retinotopy?

Answer 13

Retinotopy is the mapping of visual input from the retina to neurons, particularly those neurons within the visual stream–everything is processed upside down

Question 14

What is tonotopy

Answer 14

How audio is mapped (

Question 15

What is somotopy

Answer 15

How touch is mapped (along cyngulate gyrus)

Question 16

What is the association cortex?

Answer 16

How everything in the brain links together and communicates. Split into unimodal (where one type of sensory neuron is integrated) or hetermodal/multimodal, where numerous areas are brought together to work (such as when you go to reach for something, you use your vision and motor skills to grab it.)

Question 17

What behaviours are involved with Executive functioning

Answer 17

Complicated cognitive behaviours . Planning, problem solving, personality

Question 18

What is Agnosia

Answer 18

When the sense is intact but is unable to connect it to other parts of the brina (eg memory) that make it work .

Question 19

What is Aphasia

Answer 19

The loss of representation, like symbols or language

Question 20

What is brocas aphasia?

Answer 20

They understand language, but struggle to speak it.

Question 21

Wernickes aphasia

Answer 21

Can speak, but its nonsense

Question 22

Visual agnosia

Answer 22

When someone can see an object, but cannot recognise it–perception without meaning(damage to temporal lobe)

Question 23

Prospoganosia

Answer 23

Inability to recognise faces. They can see the faces, but cannot retain them from one minute to the next. even family members.

Question 24

Blindsight

Answer 24

When people have a blindspot in their vision du e to damage to primary visual area. Bilateral damage is when someone is comepletely blind

Question 25

Neglect/hemispatial neglect

Answer 25

Neglect syndrome is when a patient has damage to the right side of their brain, so ‘ignores’ the left side of everything, even though they can see it. They just don’t pay attention to it. The lady drawing daisys