Words that Rhyme with Homunculus
Conjugate Haze
K-Pop Deficit Hunter
Is your Motor Running?
Heated Brain Rivalries
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This word rhymes with homunculus. JK...but this vessel supplies the leg region of both sensory and motor homunculi
What is ACA?
100
This brainstem center is the saccade generator for horizontal gaze
What is the PPRF?
100
I can't get any information out of my basal ganglia to thalamus because I have had damage here.
What is GPi?
100
Descending motor tracts run to preferentially control proximal extensor muscles, originating from these 2 brainstem structures.
What are vestibular nuclei and reticular formation?
100
One sees in the dark, the other sees color.....both do this when light hits the retina.
What is hyperpolarize (rods & cones)?
200
This word rhymes with homunculus. JK...but just anterior to the motor homunculus is an area of cortex that does this.
What is pre-motor cortex/helps plan movments?
200
These 2 centers allow me to maintain a gaze....either horizontally or vertically.
What are the NPH and the INC?
200
I seem to have trouble rapidly moving my thumbs from one face button to another when playing Super Smash Brothers Ultimate on my Nintendo which means I must have done something to this structure.
What is the cerebellar hemisphere?
200
Once I start running, I don't have to think about moving my legs because these networks in my spinal cord take care of that for me.
What are CPGs?
200
One facilitates and one inhibits.....they both help get movement going in the presence of dopamine.
What are the direct and indirect pathways of the basal ganglia?
300
This word rhymes with homunculus. JK... but this limb of the internal capsule carries fibers that descend from the motor homunculus.
What is the posterior limb?
300
Damage to the MLF results in this condition.
What is internuclear ophthalmoplegia? Inability to adduct the eye of the side of damage.
300
I had a stroke and now I can't feel touch on one side of my face. Obviously, this thalamic nucleus was damaged due to a blockage in this cerebral artery.
What is VPM and posterior cerebral artery (PCA)?
300
Transection of the lateral motor system tracts will cause this type of posturing.
What is the decerebrate posturing?
300
Both detect linear acceleration, one horizontal and one vertical.
What are the utricle & saccule?
400
This word rhymes with homunculus. JK... but the somatosensory homunculus gets fibers that relay through these thalamic nuclei.
What is VPL/VPM?
400
This might be damaged if your patient doesn't notice a car coming towards them from the right.
What is left superior colliculus?
400
I try to reach in my backpack and pick out my highlighter but I can't seem to figure out what is what. It must be because of that MCA stroke that damage this area.
What is posterior parietal lobe/somatosensory association cortex? (asterognosis)
400
Lack of reflexes & flaccid paralysis can be signs of lower motor neuron damage. What is another sign specific to LMN damage?
What are fasciculations?
400
Both relay sensory information to the thalamus.....one visual and one auditory.
What are the superior and inferior colliculi?
500
This word ACTUALLY rhymes with homunculus, but it has nothing to do with neuroscience.
What is ranunculus?
500
Damage to any of these 3 places will result in the inability to look to the left.
What is left PPRF, left abducens N or right FEF
500
Bad news....my pituitary tumor has gotten big enough that I now have this visual deficit.
What is bitemporal hemianopia? (optic chiasm compression)
500
This movement disorder is characterized by involuntary, sustained muscle contractions, often induced by a specific movement.
What is dystonia?
500
Both are optic radiations that will get visual information to the calcarine fissure....one takes a direct route and one the scenic route through the temporal lobe.
What are the geniculocalcarine tract and Myer's loop?