Anatomical Terms
The heart of ......... shoulder and when your arm is out to the side it is....?
What is medial? What is abducted?
What is the limbic lobe? What is a structure found in it?
What is a collection of structures that make up our emotional instrintive brain? What is the amygdala, hippocampus, fornix, so many?
What is 1) PNS? What is 2) autonomic nervous system? What is 3) efferent?
What are neuroglia? Provide an example.
What are supportive cells in the nervous system that nourish, protect and facilitate neuronal transmission? There are bunch...
What is the function of the cerebellum?
Think conductor of the motor system...controlling the force, range of motion and scale of muscular contraction. Huge role in motor learning, balance, articulatory precision, etc.
Which neuroscientist identified the area responsible for speech comprehension? What lobe contains that structure? What is the Broadmann's area?
What is Carl Wernicke? What is the parietal lobe? What is 22?
What is the primary cortical function associated with the occipital lobe?
What is the visual cortex?
What is the name of a cranial nerve that controls eye movements?
What is occulomotor, trochlear or abducens?
Where is gray matter located in the central nervous system? Where is the spinal cord?
In the cerebrum? In the H of the spinal cord.
What is a structural imaging technique that allows you to see on 3 dimensional planes?
What is a CT scan?
The spinal cord is .........the brainstem and ............ to the foot.
What is caudal to the brainstem and cranial to the foot?
What is the structure called that is considered the relay station of all sensory information from the environment?
What is the thalamus?
What type of nerves emanate from the spinal cord? Sensory? Motor? Or both?
What is both?
When an action potential travels down an axon where does it go next?
What is the telodendrion? What is the terminal boutons?
What is the primary structure associated with memory formation?
What is the hippocampus?
What is a cross section of the brain that is not symetrical?
What is a sagittal view?
All motor movement is initiated where? What is one structure that filters that information?
What is the primary motor cortex? What is the basal ganglia or cerebellum?
Sensory input from the hand enters at what level of the spinal cord? Does it go in the dorsal or ventral aspect?
What is the cervical level of the spinal cord? What is through the dorsal root ganglion to the dorsal aspect of the spinal cord?
What is the resting membrane potential of a neuron prior to receiving stimulation?
What is -70 mV?
What was the landmark brain imaging technique conducted by Wilder Penfield and what did it teach us about the brain?
Electrical impulse mapping that taught us that brain regions have some predictable organization and specific functions - in addition to complicated multi-factorial connections too.
The insular lobe is ......... to the temporal lobe and contains what primary cortical function?
What is deep? What is taste and smell?
Where is the hypothalamus located and what is it's function?
What is ventral to the thalamus (in the diencephalon)? What is the master regulator of the endocrine system that can set the brainstem into overdrive when necessary?
What cranial nerve controls mastication and which level of the brainstem does it emanate from?
What is the trigeminal nerve and what is the pons?
When a neuron is stimulated mechanically, what ion enters the neuron to make the cell body more positive? What voltage is necessary to reach depolarization?
What is Na+? What is -55 mV?
Excitatory and inhibitory graded potentials are most likely to occur at the...
What is the dendrite?