Lab 11: Nervous System Histology and CNS - Actions

frontal lobe

motor control

precentral gyrus

primary motor cortex

parietal lobe

somatosensory perception

postcentral gyrus

primary somatosensory cortex

occipital lobe

visual perception

temporal lobe

auditory and olfactory perception, memory, emotions

hippocampus

declarative memory consolidation

fornix

connects hippocampus to mammillary bodies

insula

gustatory perception, emotions

corpus callosum

connects left and right hemispheres

basal nuclei

motor planning and nondeclarative memory

thalamus

controls information entry to the cerebral cortex

hypothalamus

controls autonomic and endocrine systems

cerebellum

nondeclarative memory for learning skilled movements

mammillary bodies of hypothalamus

declarative memory consolidation

pineal gland

secretes melatonin

arbor vitae

connects cerebellar cortex (folia) to cerebellar peduncles

superior colliculus

visual reflexes

inferior colliculus

auditory reflexes

cerebellar peduncles

connects to cerebellum

olivary nucleus

sensory relay from spinal cord to cerebellum

pyramids

midline crossing of somatic motor (corticospinal) tracts

choroid plexus

produces CSF

medulla oblongata

pyramids, olivary nucleus, choroid plexus

ventricles

spaces containing CSF (lateral, 3rd, 4th, cerebral aqueduct)