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embryonic development
- Prosencephalon
- Mesencephalon
- Rhombencephalon
Prosencephalon
structure
- Telencephalon
- Diencephalon
Rhombencephalon
structure
- Metencephalon
- Myencephalon
Telencephalon
structure
ventricle
- structure: lobes of brain
- Cerebral Cortex
- Limbic System
- Basal Ganglia
- subcortical white matter
- corpus callosum
- ventricle: lateral ventricles
Cerebral Cortex
characteristics
- grey matter
- outer shell of cerebral hemispheres
- neuronal cell bodies
- sulci and gyri
- lateral sulcus
- central sulcus
- precentral gyrus
- postcentral gyrus
white matter
tracts
ID
location
- white matter: myelinated axons
- tracts: bundle of axons
- location: corpus callosum
grey matter
ID
location
- ID: neural cell bodies
- location: cerebral cortex
Lobes
- Frontal
- Parietal
- Temporal
- Occipital
Frontal Lobe
characteristics
- planning
- problem solving
- personality
- motor
- thought
Parietal Lobe
characteristics

SA General Sensory
Occipital Lobe
characteristics

vision cortex
Temporal Lobe
characteristics
- language
- speech
- reading
- SSA Sensory
sulcus

groove
gyrus

fold
Central Salcus
ID
location
- ID: fissure
- location: parietal lobe
Lateral Salcus
ID
location
- ID: fissure
- location: temporal lobe
pre-central gyrus
ID
location
- ID: primary SE Cortex
- location: parietal lobe
Post-Central Gyrus
ID
location
- ID: primary SA cortex
- location: parietal lobe
Diencephalon
structure
ventricle
- structure: thalamus
- epithalamus
- hypothalamus
- ventricle: 3rd ventrice
Third Ventricle

midline
Thalamus
ID
structure
location
- ID: SA relay center
- structure: diencephalon
- location: 3rd ventricle
Hypothalamus
ID
location
structure
- location: 3rd ventricle
- structure: diencephalon
- ID: control center
Epithalamus
ID
location
structure
- ID: pineal gland
- location: 3rd ventricle
- structure: diencephalon
Mesencephalon
structure
ventricle
- structure: cerebral peduncles
- copra quadragemini
- ventricle: cerebral aquaduct
Superior Colliculi
ID
structure
location
- ID: visual reflex
- tracking
- structure: mesencephalon
- location: cerebral aquaduct
Inferior Colliculi
ID
structure
location
- ID: auditory reflex
- structure: mesencephalon
- location: cerebral aquaduct
Metencephalon
structure
ventricle
- structure: pons
- cerebellum
- ventricle: 4th ventricle
Pons
ID
structure
location
- ID: reflex response from motor cortex to cerebellum
- structure: metencephalon
- location: 4th ventricle
Cerebellum
ID
structure
location
- ID: learned motor patterns
- coordination
- structure: metencephalon
- location: 4th ventricle
Myelencephalon
struture
ventricle
- structure: medulla oblongata
- ventricle: 4th ventricle
Medulla Oblongata
ID
structure
location
- ID: control breathing
- somewhat controls heart rate
- structure: myelencephalon
- location: 4th ventricle
Limbic System
structure
infrastructure
- structure: cerebrum to diencephalon
- infrastructure: Hippocampus
- Amygdala
- Cingulate Gyrus
Hippocampus

short term memory formation/access
Amygdala

process fear
Cingulate Gyrus

thought/emotion into action
Basal Ganglia
structure
characteristics
- structure: Diencephalon to brainstem
- characteristics: short motor sequences
- limitations/control of motor events
- coordination
- ex/
- Parkinson's Disease
Meninges

3 coverings of brain
Pia Mater
ID
location
- ID: inner layer of meninges
- location: on surface of brain
- down every sulcus
Arachnoid Membrane
ID
tissue
location
- ID: middle layer meninges
- tissue: loose areolar CT
- location: sub-arachnoid space
Dura Mater
ID
location
- ID: outer layer meninges
- location: crista galli
arachnoid villi
fxn
location
- fxn: move CSF from subarachnoid space to super sagittal sinus
- location: arachnoid membrane
superior sagittal sinus
fxn
location
- fxn: moves CSF from arachnoid villi into blood
- location: dura mater
sub-arachnoid space
fxn
location
- fxn: houses CSF between 4th ventricle and superior sagittal sinus
- location: below arachnoid membrane
- above pia mater
Choroid Plexus
ID
fxn
location
- ID: capillary
- fxn: makes CSF
- location: ventricles
Circulation of CSF
steps
- lateral ventricles
- interventricular
- 3rd ventricle
- cerebral aquaduct
- 4th ventricle
- sub-arachnoid space
- arachnoid villi
- superior sagittal sinus
- blood
Decussation
definition
fxn
loction
- definition: cross-over point of axons from right to left, left to riht
- fxn: left brain controls right side muscle and right side SA
- right brain controls left side muscle and left side SA
- location: corpus callosum
visceral efferent is also called _____?

autonomic nervous system
ANS is made up of which 2 branches?
- sympathetic nervous system
- parasympathetic nervous system
which branch of the ANS uses epinephrine (adrenaline) and nor-epinephrine (nor-adrenanline) as its neurotransmitters?

sympathetic nervous system
the _________ nervous system uses acetycholine as its neurotransmitter.

parasympathetic
the ANS controls involuntary reactions like glands, _______ muscle in organs, and _____ muscle in heart.
- smooth
- cardiac
which division is also called the cranial-sacral and why?
- parasympathetic nervous system
- pre-ganglionic neurons in brain or sacral region of spinal chord
which division is also called the thoracolumbar and why?
- sympathetic nervous system
- pre-ganglionic neuron in thoracic or lumbar spinal chord
post-ganglionic cells
sympathetic

paravertebral chain of ganglia
post-ganglionic cells
parasympathetic

structure innervated
pituitary gland
ID
location
- ID: "master gland"
- location: sella turcica
anterior pituitary gland
ID
location
- ID: makes hormones
- location: sella turcica
posterior pituitary gland
ID
location
- ID: extension of hypothalamus
- location: sella turcica

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