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Week 8 Brain Area Flashcards

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1
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What is Grey matter?

A

Area with capillary blood vessels and cell bodies

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what is white matter?

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Axons covered by glial cells

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What is Reticular matter?

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Bodies and axons mixed

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What are the 5 levels of the Meninges?

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  • Dura Mater
  • Arachnoid membrane
  • Subarachnoid Membrane
  • Arachnoid Trabeculae
  • Pia Mater
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describe Dura Mater

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Tough, fibrous protective coating

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Describe Arachnoid Membrane

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composed of blood vessels and other Vasculture

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Describe Subarachnoid space

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Cerebral spinal fluid

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Describe Pia Mater

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Delicate tissue in direct contact with the surface of the brain

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9
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The brain contains 4 hollow interconnected chambers called what?

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Ventricles

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10
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What are the ventricles filled with?

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Cerebrospinal fluid

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Where is cerebrospinal fluid made?

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Choroid plexus

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12
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what happens if the brain’s supply of ‘fuel’ is interrupted for 6 seconds?

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unconsciousness and lasting damage

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13
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what are the three main sections of the brain?

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  • forebrain
  • midbrain
  • hindbrain
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what are some of the functions of the cerebral cortex?

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  • attention
  • awareness
  • reasoning
  • planning
  • emotion
  • language
  • perception
  • consciousness
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15
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what is the other names for a cleft?

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Fissure or Sulcus

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what is the other name for a ridge

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Gyrus

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What are the four lobes of a hemisphere?

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  • frontal
  • parental
  • temporal
  • occipital
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18
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What connects the left and right hemispheres?

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The corpus callousness

19
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what is the corpus callousness made from?

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millions of myelinated axons

20
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what is the purpose of the corpus callousness?

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it provides a pathway for communication between the hemispheres

21
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frontal cortex acts as a ___ as it receives input from the thalamus, lambic system, hypothalamus and other lobes.

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‘control centre’

22
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What are the key functions of a frontal cortex?

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  • planned motor control
  • speech production
  • higher order functioning:
  • thinking
  • personality
  • emotional process
  • memory
23
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what is Wernicke’s Aphasia?

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the inability to understand words or arrange sounds into coherent speech

24
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what are the main functions of the parietal lobes?

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  • spatial sense
  • navigation
  • sensory receptive area (touch and pain)
25
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name some of the functions of the occipital lobes

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processing of-
•visual information
• analysing shapes
• colours
• feature integration and movement
26
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What is the Thalamus?

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a relay station between the sensory information which it received from the other brain regions and the passing of this information to the cortex where it is processed at a finer level

27
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what is the purpose of the Hypothalamus?

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it regulates the autonomic nervous system and is connected to the pituitary gland

28
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what is the limbic system?

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a group of structures located in the the forebrain, midbrain and hindbrain, involved with emotion and memory

29
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what is the function of the cingulate gyrus?

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control of emotional behaviour

30
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what is the purpose of the amygdala?

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emotional processing and motivation

31
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where is the midbrain?

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above the brain stem and below the thalamus and hypothalamus

32
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what is another name for ‘midbrain’?

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Mesencephalon

33
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which system is the superior collects part of?

A

the visual system

34
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which system is the inferior colliculus part of?

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the auditory system

35
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which parts of the brain make up the brain stem?

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Pons and Medulla

36
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what parts of the brain does the hind brain consist of?

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cerebellum and brain stem

37
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what does Ipsilateral mean?

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the same side of the body

38
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what does contralateral mean?

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different sides of the body

39
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what does Afferent mean?

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axons carrying messages towards the brain

40
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what does efferent mean?

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axons carrying away from the brain

41
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what is the use of projection maps?

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tracing axons from the sensory neutrons into the brain and by tracing axons from the cortex to the motor neurons

42
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what is the purpose of cytoarchitectonic maps?

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denote the distribution of different types of cells in cortex

43
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what is the purpose of functional maps?

A

matching area to function through study of damaged brains and scanning

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