Functions
Programs and fine-tunes learned motor movements
What is the Cerebellum
Isolates the brain and CNS
What is the Blood Brain Barrier
The three areas of the cerebral cortex are
What is Sensory, Motor, and Association
Percentage of neural tissue in the brain
What is 97%
Found in the Cerebrum, responsible for Smelling
What is I Olfactory
Sensory Filter, relay station for ascending sensory information
What is the Thalmus
Can pass through Blood Brain Barrier
What is CO2, O2, lipids, ammonia, small alcohols
This region only receives information that is allowed through the Thalmus
What is the Sensory Region
Amount of CSF in the brain
What is 150ml
Found in the Midbrain, responsible for controlling 4 of the 6 eye muscles
Processes somatic sensory and motor information
What is the Cerebrum
The 3 layers to the meninges, superficial to deep
What is the dura mater, arachnoid mater, pia mater
The personality center, responsible for judgement, reasoning, planning
What is prefrontal cortex
Cells that produce CSF
What is ependymal
Found in the Pons, has 3 branches
V Trigeminal
Creative Brain, analyzes/interprets sensory information, facial recognition
What is the right hemisphere
Maintains consciousness, wakefulness, active during arousal, attention, prevents sensory overload
What is Reticular Activating System
If this area is damaged can't interpret things even though saw or heard
What is Wernicke's area
The five lobes that make up the Cerebrum
What is Frontal, Parietal, Temporal, Occipital, and Insula
Found in the Medulla, responsible for hearing and balance
VIII Vestibulocochlear
Part of the Limbic System, memory storage and retrieval
What is the Hippocampus
Shows where on precentral gyrus different body parts are controlled and how much motor innervation to each
What is Cortical Hommunculus
If this area is damaged can make sounds but not words/sentences; aphasia, broken speech
What is Broca's area
Name of the three Cerebral White Matter Fibers
Association, Commissural, and Projection
Dan's favorite, wandering nerve
X Vagus