Brain Fissures, Areas, etc

What color is the Central Sulcus

Red

What color is the Lateral Sulcus

Dark Red

What color is the Longitudinal Fissure

Purple

What color is the parieto-occipital fissure?

Dark Blue

What color is the transverse fissure

Green

What color is the area that holds the sensory and motor strip

Dark green

What color is Broca’s area?

Dark purple

What color is Wernicke’s Area?

Light blue

What color is the brain stem?

Light green

What color is the cerebellum?

Hot pink

What color is the Pons

Brown

What number represents the Thalamus

1

What number represents the midbrain

2

What number represents the Pons

3

What number represents the Medulla

4

What does grey matter do in the brain?

Process information, muscle control, sensory perception

What does the white matter do?

Composed of Myelin Axons. Used as communication pathways in the brain.

What are functions of the Frontal lobe

Motor/Planning, executive function, attention

What are the functions of the parietal lobe?

Processes sensory (touch, smell, pain), Spatial awareness

What are the functions of the Temporal Lobe

Auditory processing, language comprehension, emotional responses

What are the functions of the Occipital lobe?

Vision

What are the functions of the Cerebellum?

Coordination, balance

What are the functions of the brain stem?

Basic consciousness, sleep, heart rate, blood pressure

What are all four lobes of the brain together called?

Cerebrum

Where are upper motor neurons located?

Brain and spinal cord

Where are lower motor neurons located?

Everywhere but the brain and spinal cord

What is the somatic nervous system

Voluntary efforts such as skeletal muscle

What is the autonomic nervous system?

Involuntary efforts, such as your heart beating or your lungs breathing automatically.

What direction does sensory information go towards

Afferent pathway

What direction does motor information go towards

Efferent pathway

What types of synapses occur in the anterior gray of the spinal column?

Motor

What type of synapses occur in the poster gray of the spinal column?

Sensory

Do motor functions run ipsilateral or contralateral from brain to body?

Contralateral

What is #1 (Sensory receptor)

PAN - Peripheral Afferent Neuron

What is #2 (Sensory receptor)

Dorsal root Ganglion

What is #3? (Sensory receptors)

Interneuron

What is #4? (Sensory receptors)

LMN - Lower Motor Neuron

What is #5? (Sensory Receptors)

CAN - Central Afferent Neurons

What is the first meningeal layer?

Dura Matter

What is the structure of the Dura Matter?

Leathery and tough

What is the second meningeal layer?

Arachnoid Layer

What is the structure of the Arachnoid layer?

Webbed, honeycomb like

What is the third meningeal layer?

Pia Matter

What is the structure of the Pia Matter?

Thin milky fluid veil that coats the cerebral cortex

You’re doing great my friend

Yeah I am!!!

What ventricle is #1

Lateral Ventricle / Body ??

What ventricle is #2

3rd ventricle

What ventricle is #3

4th Ventricle

What structure is #4

Foramen of Magendie

What is CSF

Cerebral Spinal Fluid

What does Cerebral Spinal Fluid do?

Buoyancy, protection, nutrients, recycling waste

What are the four points of weakness?

Hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, blood brain barrier, basal ganglia

What are the three types of Basal Ganglia disorders?

Hypokinetic, Hyperkinetic, or a mixture

Symptoms of a hypokinetic disorder

Reduced movements

What is an example of a hypokinetic disorder?

Parkinson’s

What are the symptoms of a hyperkinetic disorder?

Excessive or Extraneous movements

What is an example of a hyperkinetic disorder?

Huntingtons

What blood supply affects speech?

MCA - Middle Cerebral Artery

What blood supply affects executive function?

ACA - Anterior cerebral Artery

What blood supply affects vision?

PCA - Posterior Cerebral Artery