Structures in the Brain
Cells of the Nervous System
Neurons & Make-up of the Brain
Locations and Purposes
Neurons, cells, terms
100
Plane of Section shown above.
What is Coronal?
100
The 3 original Meninges and the new Meningeal Layer.
What are Dura Mater, Arachnoid Mater, Pia Mater and "SLYM" (Subarachnoid Lymphatic-like Membrane)?
100
The 2 places on the neuron that can receive neural messages from other neurons.
What are dendrites & cell bodies?
100
Contralateral refers to 2 parts of the body on _________ (e.g., eyes, ears, arms, hands, etc.).
What are opposite sides?
100
Anterior, Middle, Posterior Cerebral ___________.
What are arteries (that supply blood to the brain)?
200
Directional Term: Towards the back or top of the head.
What is Dorsal?
200
Where the Cerebral Spinal Fluid flows around the brain and spinal cord.
What is the Subarachnoid Space?
200
The part of the neuron where the charges from incoming neurons are summed and the decision made as to whether the cell will fire or not.
What is the Axon Hillock?
200
The Post-central Gyrus, also known as the ___________, is next to and behind the Central Sulcus.
What is the "Somatosensory Cortex"?
200
Progenitor cells that give rise to ___________, which become neurons and glial cells.
What are "blasts" (neuro- and glio- blasts)?
300
Location of the Motor Cortex (Motor Strip).
What is the pre-central gyrus?
300
Tight junctions are created on the blood vessels in the brain via these glial cells.
What are the Astrocytes?
300
Neurons that are found in the sensory organs (eyes, ears, etc.)
What are Bipolar Neurons?
300
The Central Nervous System is composed of this.
What are the Brain and Spinal Cord.
300
Purkinje neurons are __________ and provide the ability for the nervous system to reduce the transmission of neural motor messages.
What is inhibitory?
400
Fissure dividing the Temporal Lobe from the Frontal and Parietal Lobes.
What is the Lateral (or Sylvian) Fissure?
400
The Anterior, Medial, and Posterior Cerebral Arteries.
What are the Vertebral Arteries?
400
Cells that myelinate axons in the Central Nervous System.
What are Oligodendroglia (or Oligodendrocytes)?
400
The CSF (Cerebral Spinal Fluid) is manufactured in each of the four ________, by the _________.
What are the ventricles; what are the choroid plexuses?
400
Ependymal cells line the ventricles and bring _________ into brain and nervous system tissue.
What is CSF (Cerebral Spinal Fluid)?
500
Divisions of the Autonomic Nervous System.
What are the Sympathetic & Parasympathetic Nervous Systems?
500
These cells divide into Neuronal and Glial Cells.
What are Progenitor Cells?
500
Composition of the gray matter in the brain.
What are the dendrites and cell bodies?
500
Nutrients, buoyancy, protection, waste removal.
What are the functions of the CSF?
500
Mesencephalon is the Latin term for this.
What is the midbrain?