New Material Study Guide
Nervous System organization
In the CNS
What is a Nuclei?
What is a Tract?
In the PNS
What is the Ganglion?
What is a Nerve?
Development of the CNS
What are Neural Crest Cells?
What is the Neural Tube?
Brain Development
Primary- What 3 “-brain” (also have a –cephalon name)
Secondary- What are the 5 “-cephalon”
What does each “-cephalon” develop into in an adult brain?
Ventricles
House?
Where is each ventricle?
What is CSF?
Spinal Cord
Where does it originate?
What are the enlargements?
How many spinal nerves total?
How many for Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar, Sacral, Coccygeal?
What is the Conus Medullaris?
What is the Quada Equina?
Meninges
What are the three layers?
What does each layer do and where are the located with regards to the spinal cord
(innermost, middle, outer)
Spinal Cord Cross Section
What is White Matter?
What are the parts of the white matter?
What is Grey Matter?
What are the parts of the grey matter?
What are the “gaps”?
What are the spinal nerves or “roots”?
What are the responsible for?
Reflex Arc
What are the 5 parts of the Reflex Arc?
What do each do?
Parts of the brain and their functions
Medulla
What does the discrete nuclei do? (3 major functions)
What are the Medullary Pyramids?
Pons
What is the ventral aspect?
What is the dorsal aspect?
Cerebellum
What are the 3 functions of the cerebellum?
What are the two cells of the cerebellum?
What are the cerebellar peduncles?
What do each of the 3 do?
What happens if the cerebellum is damaged?
Midbrain
What is the Corpora quadrigemina
What does the superior colliculi do?
What does the inferior colliculi do?
What is the cerebral aqueduct?
What is the Substantia nigra?
What are its major functions?
Parkinson’s Disease=
Red Nuclei does?
Diencephalon
Thalamus functions
Epithalamus houses what gland
Hypothalamus has many functions such as
Cerebrum
Basal NucleiCorpus CallosumGyriSulciCerebral CortexCerebral Medulla-
LOBES
FrontalBroca’s Area=
Pre-frontal cortex=
ParietalWernike’s Area=
OccipitalTemporalLIMBIC SYSTEM
Cingulate GyrusHippocampus-
AmygdalaDisorders of the AmygdalaCRANIAL NERVES ARE THEIR FUNCTIONS
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