Front Back
Ventral =
Belly /
Dorsal means
Spine (fin)
Caudal
Back of head (occipital lobe_
Rostral
Rostral
Lateral
Outward
Medial
Mid
What included in CNS
cer(x2) brainstem spinal cord
Pns =
Somaticsomatic visceral
Somatic means
Voluntary
Visceral means
Autonomic
Ventral view of brain shows
The underbelly of it.. where spine comes out
Dorsal of brain
Top..
Dura mater is on
Outside *hard mother
Dura mater functions to
Encase brain and spinal crod
Dura mater is anchorex to
Cranium (outside) pia (inside)
Pia mater functions to
Connect tissue with capillaries to nourish
Pia mater located
On inside closest to brain
Arachnoid is
- richly vascularized -holds CSF - role in BBB
Myelencephalon is
Meduall oblongata
Metencephalon is
Cerebellum, pons
Mesencephalon
Tectum
Mesencephalon is another meaning for
Midbrain
Myencepbhalon and myelencephalon combine to make the ___ structures
Hindbrain
What makes up the forebrain
Telencephalon and diencephalon
What structures in diencephalon?
Thalamus and hypothalamus
What structures in the telencephalon?
Cerebral cortext, basal ganglia, etc
Cerebral cortex is also
Cerebellar cortex
What comprises the "cortex"
Cerebral cortex (neocortex, archicortex, paleocortex) and cerebellar cortex (cerebral cortext)
Lobe is coprised of waht 3 parts
Gyrus sulcus and fissure
What is interchangable with deep sulcus
Fissure
The ridges are
Gyri
Grooves are
Sulci
What 3 sulcus dividing brain/
CALCARINE - back central tip middle lateral sulcus
Another name for bundle of fibers
Fascicles
Peduncles =
Thick bundles of fibers that connect big parts of brain to other big parts of brain
Penfield deiscovered the
Motor homunculus
Spiny cells are
Excitatory
Smooth cells are
Inhibitory
Spiny cells are also called
Pyramidal cells
Smooth cells also called
Basket cells
White matter =
Axons
Grey matter =
Cell bodies
Inside spinal cord is __ matter
Grey
What is central canal
Central spinal cord structure holding CSF
Sulculi are formed from
Neurons
Dorsal column does
Fine touch proprioception to brain
There is a left and right mirrored version of each column
In the spine
Axial mucles
Any muscle except ones on limbs
Spine track: fine touch, proprioception
Dorsal column
Spine tract: limb motor
Lateral corticospinal
What tract is inside ventral median fissure?
Ventral corticospinal tract
What does VCT do?
Axial (non-limb) motor movements
Spine tract: pain and temp sensation
Lateral spinothalamic tract
Anterior spinothalamic trac function
Crude touhch
Where is gray matter of spinal cord found?
Inside called "horns"
How many gray horns are there?
3 dorsal, ventral, lateral
Which horn synapses sensory to interneuron
Dorsal
Ventral gray horn function
Somatic motorneuron bodies
Lateral gray horns are present only
At thoracic and lumbar regions
Somatic neurons are called
Motor neurons
Synapse on
Skeletal muscle
Spinal nerves are a conjunction of
Motor and sensory neurons
Ventral holds
Motor
All sensory neuron cell bodies held in
Dorsal root ganglion
Ganglion is a name given when
Cells are bundled OUTSIDE spinal region (or brain)
Where do sensory sensory neurons and interneurons synapse?
Dorsal grey horn
Other for: rostral
Anterior
Other for: caudal
Posterior
Other for: dorsal
Superficial
Other for: ventral
Inferior
Other for: ventral
Inferior
Cerebrocerebellum function
Motor planning
Spinocerebellum
Motor execution
Spinocerebellum connects
Motor cortex (via nuclei
Cerebrocerebellum
Premotor cortex via (dendate)
Contralateral means
Opposite side
Ipsilateral means
Same side
What descending tract for cerebellum outputs
Spinocerebellum
How is motor execution influenced
Fastigial nucleus
Vestibulocerebeullum impacts
Motor adjustment, balance
Where does vestibulocerebellum project?
Vestibular nuclei
3 layers of cerebellum
Molecular, purkinje, granule
ML PL and GL
3 layers of cerebellum
2 fibers in cerebellar circuits
climbing mossy
Climbing fibers function
Receive purkinjie input
Mossy fibers function
Input from cerebral cortex
Climbing fibers fire a ___ spike
Complex
Mossy fibers come from
Pontine nuclei
Primary motor cortex is a map of the bodys
Movements
Same column cells influnence
Common
What are synergistic muscles
Act together in a movement
Same column (PMC)
Synergistic movement
How are muscles activated?
By a colony (or several ) columns
2 corticospinal neuron functions
1. initiates movement 2. stretch reflex
What determines magnitude and force of muscle?
Rate of firing
Small upper motor neuron lesion
Loss of refined movement
Extensive upper motor neuron lesion =
Paralysis
Hypo =
Under
Hypotonia =
- low muscle tone
Post central gyrus holds
Somatosensory map
Control of muscles comes from
Primary motor area
Where is primary motor area located?
Pre central gyrus
Primary sensory sent info is sent to
Higher order sensory -> association -> pre-motor -> primary motor
Kinesthesia
Sense of limb movement
Proprioception
Sense of limb position
What receptors signal the position and movement of your limb?
Muscle spindles
Muscle spindles are
afferents for: - position -velocity
What excels at force
Golgi tendon organs
Effector
Skeletal muscle etc

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