Structure List

Schwann cell

Which neuron type cell bodies are located here?

GSA

Which neuron type cell bodies are located here?

GVA

Which neuron type cell bodies are located here?

GVE

Which neuron cell bodies are located here?

GSE

What type of neuron fibers run through here?

GSA

What type of neuron fibers run through the anterior portion of the dorsal horn?

GVA

What type of neuron fibers run through here?

GSE

What type of neuron fibers run through here (lateral gray horn)?

GVE

soma/cell body of neuron

axon of neuron

axon terminal

synaptic cleft

synaptic vesicles

presynaptic membrane/neuron

postsynaptic membrane/neuron

neuromuscular junction

myelin sheath

nodes of ranvier

gray matter of spinal cord

ventral horn

dorsal horn

lateral horn

central gray commisure

What is this area called and what runs through here?

• ventral funiculus; AARRVT

• anterior corticospinal tract

• anterior spinothalamic tract

• reticulospinal

• rubrospinal

• vestibulospinal

• tectospinal

What is this area called and which tracts run through here?

dorsal funiculus

• posterior column

What is this area called and which tracts run through here?

lateral funiculi

• lateral spinothalamic

• spinocerebellar

• spinotectal

• lateral corticospinal

ventral white commissure

dorsal white commissure

central canal

conus medullaris

ventral rootlet

dorsal rootlet

dorsal root ganglia

What is this structure and what does it contain?

spinal nerve

• both afferent (sensory) and efferent (motor) neurons

What type of neurons run through here?

ventral ramus

• afferent (sensory) and efferent (motor) going to extrinsic back muscles and skin/muscles of the front of body

What type of neurons run through here?

dorsal ramus

• sensory/afferent for skin of back and efferent/motor for intrinsic back muscles

cauda equina

vertebral canal

intervertebral notch/foramina

dura mater

arachnoid mater

pia mater

denticulate ligaments

(yellow line)

filum terminale

epidural space

What is found in this space?

subarachnoid space

• CSF

lumbar cistern

What is found here? Where is it produced? What is its path?

• CSF

• choroid plexus

• choroid plexus —> ventricles —→ subarachnoid space —→ arachnoid villi —→ dural sinus

thalamus

epithalamus

what does this structure produce?

pineal gland

• melatonin

hypothalamus

midbrain

pons

medulla oblongata

cerebellar cortex

cerebellar hemispheres

folia

vermis of cerebellum

Name this structure and two functions

frontal lobe

• voluntary movement

• executive decision making

Name this structure and two functions

parietal lobe

• somatosensory processing

• spatial processing

Name this structure and two functions

• auditory processing

• language processing (Wernicke’s area)

Name this structure and two functions

• primary visual cortex

• visual association area

Name this structure and its function

insula

emotional response to pain

longitudinal fissure

transverse fissure

precentral gyrus

• primary motor area

postcentral gyrus

primary somatosensory area

transverse temporal gyri

superior temporal gyri

parahippocampal gyrus

cingulate gyrus

lateral sulcus

central sulcus

parieto-occipital sulcus

calcarine sulcus

corpus callosum

Name this structure and its function

fornix

• connects the hypothalamus to the hippocampus

fornix

fornix

anterior commissure

corona radiata

primary motor area

motor association area

primary somatosensory area

somatosensory association area

primary auditory area

auditory association area

primary visual area

visual association area

Broca’s area

• motor speech

Wernicke’s area

• understanding language

hippocampus

lentiform nucleus: putamen + globus pallidus

lentiform nucleus: putamen + globus pallidus

caudate nucleus

caudate nucleus

infundibulum

infundibulum