Nervous System
Neuroanatomy
Terms
Basics
100
A function of the brainstem.
What is unconscious control of respiration?
100
Primary information-carrying cell in the nervous system.
What are neurons?
100
______ studies the relationship between brain and behavior.
What is biopsychology?
100
(Plane of section) A specific nucleus can be found posterior and ventral to another structure you have labeled.
What is the sagittal plane of section?
200
The main divisions of the central nervous system.
What are brain and spinal cord?
200
The region of the brain would show the greatest proportional enlargement in the human brain.
What is telencephalon?
200
____ consists of patterns of coordinated movements in time.
What is behavior?
200
Solution of ions that circulates inside and around the brain.
What is cerebrospinal fluid?
300
Motor fibers that are ___ of the spinal cord, and connect to spinal nerves via the ___ spinal roots.
What are efferent and ventral?
300
Dysfunction of the basal ganglia.
What is difficulty suppressing involuntary movements.
300
Theory that behavior can be explained as a function of the nervous system.
What is materialism?
300
The least likely direction to use within a coronal section of the brain.
What is anterior/posterior?
400
The peripheral nervous system is anatomically composed of.
What are sensory neurons, motor connections to skeletal muscles, and sensory & motor connections to internal organs?
400
Web-like layer of the meninges.
What is the arachnoid layer?
400
Large collection of axons inside the CNS.
What is tract?
400
Structure that relays sensory information.
What is thalamus?
500
What are lateral fissure, central sulcus, frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, temporal lobe, hindbrain, midbrain, and cerebellum?
500
Lobe that is most strongly associated with voluntary motor control.
What is frontal lobe?
500
"Roof" of the midbrain that processes sensory (auditory & visual) information.
What is tectum?
500
Ventricles.
What are the lateral, third, fourth, and cerebral aqueduct?