PSC 121 UC Davis - Lab Practical structures

3 levels of meninges

dura mater, arachnoid mater, pia mater

pineal body

produce melatonin

superior colliculus

head/eye orientation

inferior colliculus

auditory transmission

frontal lobe

motor control

parietal lobe

sensory

occipital lobe

visual

temporal lobe

auditory

cerebellum

motor/movement

mammillary bodies

memory

medulla

autonomic function

midbrain

sensory processing

olfactory bulb

smell

olive

motor coordination

periamygdaloid cortex

process olfactory information

pons

regulates sleep/arousal cycles

spinal chord

relay motor + sensory info to and from periphery nervous system

trapezoid body

auditory processing

lateral ventricles

produce CSF

cerebral aqueduct

connects 3rd and 4th ventricles

corpus callosum

large tract connect left and right hemispheres

fornix

connects hippocampus to other regions

hypothalamus

governs ANS, (fighting, feeding, fleeing, f*cking)

cingulate gyrus

relays info between thalamus + neocortex

septum pellucidum

membrane dividing horns of lateral ventricles

amygdala

emotion

basal ganglia

control voluntary movement

caudate

reward system

putamen

procedural learning

globus pallidus

motor movement

external capsule

corticocortical association

hippocampus

memory

thalamus

relay station

substantia nigra

dark body of neurons communicate with basal ganglia