Brain Structures ID
Brain Functions
Cranial Nerves ID
Cranial Nerves
Functions
NS2
Miscellaneous
100

Meaning of Rostral and Caudal

Rostral - toward the forehead

Caudal - toward the spinal cord

100

Pineal Gland secretes

Melatonin

100

The number of this cranial nerve.

II or 2.

100

Olfactory Nerve

Smell

100

Wernicke’s area function

Reading, writing, speaking, and understanding words

200

The name of structure highlighted green.

Corpus callosum

200

Diencephalon contains

Thalamus, hypothalamus, epithalamus (pineal gland)

200

Optic nerve is #

II

200

Abducens nerve

Movement of eyeball

200

What tract connects left and right cerebral hemispheres?

Corpus callosum 

300

Meninges in order for superficial to deep

Dura Mater, Arachnoid Mater, Pia Mater

300

Function of cerebrospinal fluid

Buoyancy, protection, and chemical stability

300

Vestibulocochlear nerve is #

VIII

300

Movement of the eye is sensory or motor or both

Motor

300

Does the arbor vitae of the cerebellum comprise white matter or gray matter?

White matter.

400

Dura Mater attached to which bone and bone surface?

Crista Galli of Ethmoid bone
400

Cerebrospinal fluid is reabsorbed by

Arachnoid villi

400

All ascending and descending fibers connecting brain and spinal cord pass through the

Medulla

400

The muscle controlled by the trochlear nerve.

Superior oblique muscle.

400

Limbic system location

In each cerebral hemisphere

500

Blood brain barrier is for what?

Regulates what substances can get from bloodstream into tissue fluid of the brain

500

The two centers that the medulla oblongata controls.

Respiratory and Cardiovascular

500

Cranial nerves V, VI, VII, and VIII are located where

The Pons

500

Hypoglossal nerve

Movement of tongue during speech and swallowing

500

Lesions of cerebellum can cause

Ataxia