Week 3 key terms

Question 1

What is the central nervous system?

Answer 1

The portion of the nervous system that includes the brain and spinal cord

Question 2

What is White matter?

Answer 2

Pale coloured layer tunderneath the cortex that largely consists of axons and White myelin sheath

Question 3

what is gray matter?

Answer 3

Areas of the brain that are dominated by cell bodies and devoid of myelin

Question 4

What is the cortex?

Answer 4

Outer surface of the brain

Question 5

what does the cortex consist of?

Answer 5

gyri

Question 6

What is gyrus?

Answer 6

A ridged or Raised proportion of a convoluted brain surface

Question 7

What is sulcus?

Answer 7

A furrow of a convoluted brain surface

Question 8

What is the fissure?

Answer 8

Grooves in the cortex

Question 9

What is the key functionS of the frontal lobe? (4)

Answer 9

Planning
Decision-making
!Language
Emotion regulation

Question 10

What are they functions of the parietal lobe? (3)

Answer 10

Attention
Spatial Perception
Number processing

Question 11

What are the key functions of the temporal lobe? (3)

Answer 11

Auditory processing
Memories
Language

Question 12

What are the key functions of the occipital lobe?

Answer 12

Vision

Question 13

What is the Corpus Callosum?

Answer 13

The main band of axons that connect the 2 cerebral hemispheres

Question 14

What does dorsal mean?

Answer 14

Top of the brain

Question 15

What does ventral mean?

Answer 15

Bottom of the brain

Question 16

What does superior mean?

Answer 16

top of the head

Question 17

What does inferior mean?

Answer 17

bottom of the head

Question 18

What does anterior mean?

Answer 18

Toward head end of lrganism

Question 19

What does posterior mean?

Answer 19

Toward the tail end of an organism

Question 20

What is the coronal plane?

Answer 20

The division of the brain into front and backparts

Question 21

What is the sagittal plane?

Answer 21

The division if the brain into right or left portions

Question 22

what is the horizontal plane?

Answer 22

The division of the brain Into upper and lower parts

Question 23

What are meninges?

Answer 23

Protective membranes between the brain and skull

Question 24

What are ventricles?

Answer 24

Fluid filled cavities in the brain

Question 25

What are the parts to the forebrain? (2)

Answer 25

Diencephalon

Telencephalon

Question 26

What are the functions of the midrain?

Answer 26

1- acts as a stop on the route from sensory organs to the brain
2- Motor control

Question 27

What are the functions of the hindbrain?

Answer 27

Controls breathing, heart rate and motor control

Question 28

What are they areas in the hindbrain? (3)

Answer 28

Cerebellum, pons, medulla

Question 29

What is the telencephalon made up of? (3)

Answer 29

Basal ganglia, cortex and Limbic system

Question 30

What is the diencephalon made up of? (2)

Answer 30

Thalamus and hypothalamus

Question 31

What does the Limbic system do?

Answer 31

Play a crucial role in memory and emotions

Question 32

What is basal ganglia?

Answer 32

A group of forebrain nuclei located deep within the cerebral hemisphere

Question 33

What does basal ganglia do? (3)

Answer 33

Controls voluntary motor control, Learning and memory

Question 34

Where is the cerebellum?

Answer 34

In the hindbrain (back) dorsal to the pons

Question 35

What is the function of the cerebellum?

Answer 35

Involved in central regulation of movement