If this connection is severed, information presented in the left visual field cannot be verbalized.
What is the corpus callosum?
100
Declarative memory disorders can occur when damage happens to the dorsal thalamus and these 2 structures.
What are the amygdala and mammillary bodies?
100
The muscles that allow speech are controlled by this area.
What is the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus?
100
The mesencephalon is associated with this ventricular space.
What is the cerebral aqueduct? (Aqueduct of Sylvius)
100
Small and blue, but important in the governance of sleep and waking.
What is the locus coeruleus?
200
First identified in the 1960's by Norman Geschwind and colleagues at Harvard, this asymmetric enlargement of brain is significantly larger on the left side in 2/3 of humans studied postmortem and in higher apes.
What is the planum temporale? (superior aspect of left temporal lobe)?
200
Characterized by insidious onset of failure of recent memory and other intellectual functions, the two distinctive pathologic features are only found postmortem.
What are neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques?
200
When the tongue deviates to the left, the damaged area must be this.
What is hypoglossal nucleus of medulla (left)?
200
Lying immediately ventral (under) the fourth ventricle, this narrow tract is important in conjugate eye movements.
What is the medial longitudinal fasciculus?
200
Sometimes referred to as the horizontal gaze center, this collection of neurons coordinates horizontal eye movements.
What is the paramedian pontine reticular formation (PPRF)?
300
If this area is damaged, tasks in which subjects name faces, animals or tools may be affected.
What is the left temporal lobe?
300
When sticking a tongue blade to the back of the throat, you are testing integrity of this cranial nerve meatball.
What is nucleus ambiguus?
300
Often referred to as the striatum, these 2 nuclei are the largest gray matter structures embedded in the cerebral hemispheres.
What are the caudate and putamen nuclei?
300
Those neocortical regions not involved in primary sensory or motor processing.
What is association cortex?
300
These meatballs lie in the lower medulla and relay mechanosensory information from the upper body to the thalamus.
What are the cuneate nuclei?
400
This happens if congenitally deaf individuals suffer lesions in the left hemisphere language areas.
What are signing deficits? (cannot properly control the spatial orientation of the signs.)
400
Opens my eyes when danger lurks, and narrows when sun is too bright, what is the name of this unique meatball?
What is Edinger-Westphal Nucleus?
400
These structures lie ventral to the putamen and modulate neural activity in cerebral cortex, often showing damage in Alzheimer disease.
What are the basal forebrain nuclei?
400
Three major components of the basal ganglia include putamen and these 2 structures.
What are the caudate nucleus and globus pallidus?
400
The major thalamic relay for auditory information.
What is the medial geniculate complex?
500
Patients with this genetic condition, which appears in middle age, develop hallucinations, seizures, loss of motor control, and the inability to enter a state of deep sleep.
What is fatal familial insomnia?
500
When testing sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscle function, we are assuring integrity of this column of the spinal cord.
What is the intermediolateral column?
500
Through these small openings the CSF flows from the lateral ventricles into the 3rd ventricle.
What are the foramina of Monro? (aka interventricular foramina)
500
Prominent meatball in the medulla which is a major source of input to the cerebellum.
What is the inferior olivary nucleus?
500
Four cell groups located slightly lateral to 3rd ventricle in the anterior hypothalamus of primates, thought to play a role in sexual behavior.
What are the interstitial nuclei of the anterior hypothalamus? (INAH)