Brain & Spinal Cord
The 3 major divisions of the brain:
What are the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brainstem?
There are four of these in the brain:
What are ventricles?
This is how the CSF continuously flows on a path through the CNS:
This is the body's "master gland" that secretes hormones to regulate vital functions and well-being:
What is the pituitary gland?
This lobe is responsible for all things visual:
What is the occipital lobe?
Divides the cerebrum into left and right hemispheres:
What is the longitudinal fissure?
The three regions of the brain:
What are the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain?
The three functions of CSF
What are buoyancy, protection, and chemical stability?
This is the control center of the autonomic nervous system, and relays signals to the pituitary gland:
What is the hypothalamus?
This lobe is used for hearing, smell, emotion, learning, language, memory, speech, and more:
What is the temporal lobe?
Cerebral lobes are separated by 3 sulci:
What are the central, lateral, and parieto-occipital sulci?
This is a thick nerve bundle at the bottom of the longitudinal fissure that connects hemispheres:
What is the corpus callosum?
These two work together in the sense that _____ secretes CSF, while _____ reabsorbs CSF:
What are the choroid plexus and arachnoid villi?
This coordinates voluntary movement:
What is the cerebellum?
This lobe is used for taste, sensation, visual, language, numerical situations, and more:
What is the parietal lobe?
____ contains cell bodies, dendrites, and synapses, while ____ contains bundles of axons:
What are gray matter and white matter?
Ventricles are connected via these three things:
What are the interventricular foramen, cerebral aqueduct, and central canal?
This is neuroglia that lines the ventricles and covers the choroid plexus, functioning to modify the CSF filtrate produced from plasma:
What is the ependyma?
This relays motor signals from cerebrum to spinal cord and sensory signals from spinal cord to brain:
What is the medulla oblongata?
This lobe is in charge of thought, memory, decision-making, emotions, speech, voluntary moto, and more:
What is the frontal lobe?
This is the order of the meninges, including each space, from superficial to deep:
What are (periosteal layer), dura mater, subdural space, arachnoid mater, subarachnoid space, pia mater?
This area of the brain assists in the coordination of visual and auditory:
What is the midbrain?
Good sleep can prevent Alzheimer's disease, this is because:
CSF flow is most active at night
What is the reticular formation?
This part of the cerebrum is responsible for taste, pain, consciousness, emotion, empathy, and more (hint: it is not a lobe):
What is the insula?