Central Nervous System
Slicing up the Brain
Getting Oriented
Peripheral Nervous System
Smorgasbord
100
This neuroimaging technique uses magnets to measure blood flow in the brain.
What is fMRI?
100
A slice of the brainstem/spinal cord.
What is a cross section?
100
Towards the middle, and towards the sides, respectively?
What are medial and lateral, respectively?
100
This division of the autonomic nervous system is responsible for the fight or flight response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
100
____ matter is cell bodies, ______ matter is myelinated axons.
What is gray and white?
200
This liquid fills the empty spaces in the CNS.
What is cerebral spinal fluid?
200
What is a saggital cut?
200
Towards the top of the head and towards the bottom of the skull, respectively.
What are dorsal and ventral, respectively?
200
This division of the autonomic nervous system is responsible for the rest and digest response. The resting state.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
200
A common misconception, we actually use 100% of our brains.
What is "We only use 10% of our brains?"
300
These are the open spaces in the brain?
What are the ventricles?
300
What is horizontal cut.
300
Towards the face and towards the back of the head, respectively.
What are anterior and posterior, respectively?
300
This law says that sensory nerves enter the dorsal side of the spinal cord and motor nerves exit the ventral side of the spinal cord.
What is the Bell - Magendie Law?
300
This part of the brain controls "staying alive" functions like heart rate, breathing, digestion, and hiccups!
What is the medulla?
400
This neuroimaging technique utilizes a radioactive tracer to measure sugar usage in the brain.
What is PET?
400
What is a coronal cut?
400
Two structures on the same side and two structures on opposite sides.
What are ipsilateral and contralateral, respectively?
400
Bundles of axons in the PNS, comparable to tracts in the CNS.
What are nerves?
400
A point where axons cross hemispheres in the brain
What is a decussation?
500
The three protective membranes under the skull.
What are the meninges, specifically the pia mater, arachnoid layer, and dura mater?
500
What is the hippocampus?
500
Towards the mouth, and towards the tail, respectively.
What are rostral and caudal, respectively?
500
Clumps of cell bodies in the PNS, comparable to nuclei in the CNS.
What is a ganglion? (Ganglia)
500
This part of the brain is responsible for body temperature and homeostasis.
What is the hypothalamus?