Amygdala
What is the anatomy of the amygdala?
What is a subcortical almond-shaped group of nuclei located within each temporal lobe.
Where can the hypothalamus be found?
What is the brainstem composed of?
What is the midbrain, the pons, and the medulla oblongata.
What functions is the PFC involved in?
What are executive functions.
The amygdala is a part of what system?
What is the limbic system
What is the anatomy of the hippocampus?
What is a seahorse like structure with 3-4 layers (allocortex).
What two systems does the hypothalamus link together and how?
What is the nervous system to the endocrine system via the pituitary gland.
What are three types of functions the nuclei in the brainstem are responsible for?
What are automatic, reflex, and autonomic functions.
Each region of the PFC has specific ___ and ____.
What is gyri and sulci.
What are the three major regions to the amygdala?
What is the basolateral complex, the corticomedial nuclear group, and the central nucleus.
In what disease is the hippocampus one of the first areas of the brain to be negatively affected?
What is Alzheimer's disease (and other forms of dementia).
What are the three major outputs the hypothalamus uses to control bodily functions?
What are the behavioral, autonomic, and endocrine systems
What are the white matter tracts of the brainstem involved in?
What is the transmission of motor impulses.
What is the dorsal PFC associated with brains regions involved in what three functions?
What is attention, cognition, and action.
Name five functions of the amygdala?
What is the processing of emotions, motivation, decision-making, autonomic reactions with fear, survival, the fight or flight response, anger, and pleasure.
All of these are possible answers.
What cortex is the main input to the hippocampus from?
What is the entorhinal cortex.
What three areas of the brain does the hypothalamus receive inputs from?
What is the hippocampus, amygdala, and cingulate cortex.
The brainstem includes the reticular formation, what are three functions of the reticular formation?
What is arousal, alertness, sleep and wakefulness, consciousness, and other motor and sensory functions.
The ventral PFC is involved with regions of the brain associated with what function?
What is emotion.
What does the basolateral complex have connections with?
Name five functions of the hippocampus?
Where do hypothalamic neurons send their axons?
What is directly to the preganglionic neurons in both the sympathetic and parasympathetic ANS.
What neurons does the pons contain?
What are noradrenergic neurons.
What are the four main regions of the PFC?
What is the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC).