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What plane separates the body and body parts into anterior and posterior?
Coronal plane
What plane is this?
Coronal plane
What plane separates the body or body parts into left and right portions?
Sagittal plane
What plane is this?
Sagittal plane
What plane goes right down the middle of the body and separates the body into right and left portions?
Midsagittal plane
What plane is parallel to the midsagittal plane?
parasagittal plane
What plane separates the body or body parts into an upper and lower portion?
Transverse plane
What plane is this?
Transverse plane
What term means towards the front of the body?
anterior
What term means towards the back of the body?
posterior
What term means located centrally?
central
What term means located in the periphery?
peripheral
What term means away from the body surface?
deep
What term means towards the body surface?
superficial
What term means away from the point of origin?
distill
What term means toward the point of origin?
proximal
What term means ‘outside’?
external
What term means ‘inside’?
internal
What term means ‘below’?
infra
What term means ‘above’?
supra
What term means towards the side?
lateral
What term means toward the middle?
medial
What term means ‘after’?
post
What term means ‘before’?
pre
What term means face down?
prone
What term means face up?
supine
The brain uses __% of blood supply and __ % of oxygen
20%, 25%
What part of the CNS has the function of initiating and regulating all motor, sensory, and cognitive processes?
Brain
What is the function of the brain?
To initiate and regulate all motor, sensory, and cognitive processes
What are the 3 parts of the brain?
Cerebrum, brainstem, and cerebellum
What part of the brain is the motor cortex?
precentral gyrus
What part of the brain is the somatosensory cortex?
post-central gyrus
What part of the brain houses the somatosensory cortex?
parietal lobe
What is in-between the precentral gyrus and post-central gyrus?
central sulcus
Broca’s area is in charge of what?
Language production
What lobe of the brain is the most anterior?
frontal lobe
What part of the brain has the functions of:
-activating/controlling fine and complex motor activities
-controlling human executive functions
frontal lobe
What part of the brain houses Broca’s area?
frontal lobe
What is the function of Broca’s area?
fine coordination of speech output
What lobe of the brain is the most posterior in the brain?
occipital lobe
What lobe of the brain has the function of visual reception and processing?
Occipital lobe
What lobe of the brain is located posterior to the frontal lobe and above the ears?
parietal lobe
What lobe of the brain has functions:
perceiving and integrating sensory and perceptual information
comprehending oral and written language
calculating mathematics
Parietal lobe
What part of the brain is located posterior to frontal lobe and inferior to parietal lobe?
temporal lobe
What part of the brain has the function processing auditory information and language comprehension?
Temporal lobe
What part of the brain houses Wernicke’s area?
left temporal lobe
What is the function of Wernicke’s area?
language comprehension
A stroke to this area will have intelligible and fluent speech but what they are saying may not make sense or be meaningful
Wernicke’s area
What part of the brain is located at the top of the spinal cord?
Brainstem
What part of the brain is a conduit between the rest of the brain and the spinal cord?
brainstem
The brainstem is composed of what 3 areas?
midbrain, pons, and medulla
What are the major centers of the brainstem?
cardiac center, vasomotor center, respiratory center
What center of the brainstem controls the heart?
cardiac center
What center of the brainstem controls the blood vessels?
vasomotor center
What center of the brainstem controls breathing?
respiratory center
What part of the brain is posterior to the brainstem?
cerebellum
What part of the brain has functions:
regulates motor and muscular activity
coordinating motor movements
maintaining muscle tone
monitoring movement range and strength
maintaining posture and equilibrium
cerebellum
What carry’s sensory information from the body to the brain and motor commands from brain to body?
spine
What is sensory information from body to the brain?
afferent
What is motor commands from brain to the body?
efferent
What are the 5 segments of the spine?
cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, coccygeal
What are the 2 types of the PNS?
somatic and autonomic nervous system
What type of the nervous system is voluntary movements?
somatic nervous system
What type of the nervous system is involuntary movements?
autonomic nervous system
What part of the neuron is the covering over the axon that protects and speeds up the signal?
myelin sheath
What part of the neuron produces the myelin sheath?
Schwann cells
What side of the neuron is the end and where another neuron picks up the signal?
axon terminal
What is the definition of communication?
exchange of information or news
What has the function of:
cognitive tasks
attention
memory
organization
problem solving/reasoning
executive functions
Cognition
What disorder has difficulties in:
memory
communication and language
ability to focus and pay attention
reasoning and judgement
visual perception
dementia
What are the characterizations of TBI?
closed vs. open
causes
extent
damage
What lobe of the brain is highlighted?
Frontal lobe
What lobe of the brain is highlighted?
Temporal lobe
What lobe of the brain is highlighted?
Temporal lobe
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Occipital
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Parietal lobe
What lobe of the brain is highlighted?
Parietal lobe
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Corpus collosum
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Corpus Collosum
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Corpus collosum
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Sylvian Fissure
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Sylvian fissure
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Longitudinal fissure
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Longitudinal fissure
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Cerebellum
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Cerebellum
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Cerebellum
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Midbrain
What part of the brain is highlighted?
midbrain
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Midbrain
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Pons
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Pons
What part of the brain is highlighted?
pons
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Medulla
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Medulla
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Medulla
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Thalamus
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Thalamus
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Hippocampus
What part of the brain is highlighted?
Hippocampus