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Week Three Flashcards

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1
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The inferior and superior colliculli compose of the…

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Tecumseh

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The cortex on simple examination is divided into

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Four lobes

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The corpus callousness is the brains largest…

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Commissure or connection between hemispheres

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4
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The nude dulls is responsible for…

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.

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Thalamus is what to the hypothalamus

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.

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The six layers of Gray matter on top of the white matter is the …

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Neocortex

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The difference between sensory and motor pathways is least distinct in the…

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The cortex.

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What part of the brain is immediately on top of the spinal cord head…

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The medulla followed by the pons

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The grey matter of the brain is….

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Neuronal soma

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10
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Slicing through the brain parallel to the ground would be what plan…

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Horizontal

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The cranial, spinal nerves and the peripheral ganglia form the …..

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The cranial, spinal nerves and peripheral ganglia form the Peripheral nervous system

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The central nervous system CNS comprises the…

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Brain and spinal cord are the CNS

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13
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The meninges, blood brain barrier and skull provide some protection for neurons that form the CNS… TRUE OR FALSE.

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True

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The dura mater is…..

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The dura mater is a tough protective sheath that covers the brain and is closest to the skull

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The brain is cushion by cerebrospinal fluid and contained in the subararachnoid space…. True or false

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True

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16
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Describe the ventricles

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The ventricles are formed by four hollow and interconnected spaces within the brain.

17
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Describe a fissure and name one

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A fissure is a large groove in the cortex

18
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A gurus is…

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A gurus is the bulge between sulcus

19
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The primary visual cortex is located in which cortical lobe…

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The primary visual cortex is located in the occipital lobe at the rear of the brain

20
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The primary auditory cortex is located in the …..

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Temporal lobe

21
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The primary somatosensory cortex is located in the …

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Parietal lobe

22
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The fight/flight response is governed by which nervous system…

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Fight/flight is the autonomic nervous system

23
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The pons is located…..

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Above the medulla on the brain stem

24
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The striatum is a region of the

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Basal ganglia

25
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The substantia nigra is and projects to

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….the striatum in the basal ganglia

26
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The small cracks in the cortex are called…

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Sullivan

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