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Michael McKeough 2008
The Central Nervous SystemThe Central Nervous System
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Primary Projection AreasPrimary Projection Areas 100100
This area is located on the This area is located on the precentral gyrus.precentral gyrus.
It controls voluntary movement of It controls voluntary movement of the opposite side of the body.the opposite side of the body.
It contains a homunculus.It contains a homunculus.
What is the primary motor cortex?What is the primary motor cortex?
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Primary Projection AreasPrimary Projection Areas 200200
This area is located on the postcentral This area is located on the postcentral gyrus.gyrus.
It receives primary sensation from the It receives primary sensation from the opposite side of the body.opposite side of the body.
It contains a homunculus.It contains a homunculus.
What is the primary sensory cortex?
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Primary Projection AreasPrimary Projection Areas 300300
This area is located on the superior This area is located on the superior temporal gyrus.temporal gyrus.
It receives primary sensation from It receives primary sensation from both ears.both ears.
What is the primary auditory cortex?
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Primary Projection AreasPrimary Projection Areas 400400
This area is responsible for speech This area is responsible for speech production.production.
It is located in the frontal lobe.It is located in the frontal lobe.
What is Broca’s area?
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This area is the only primary projection This area is the only primary projection region seen on a medial view of the region seen on a medial view of the hemisphere.hemisphere.
It is located on both banks of the It is located on both banks of the calcarine sulcus.calcarine sulcus.
What is the primary visual cortex?
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7 Parts of the CNS7 Parts of the CNS 100100
In this part of the CNS, gray matter In this part of the CNS, gray matter is located centrally in an “H” or is located centrally in an “H” or “butterfly” shape.“butterfly” shape.
It contains four regions that serve It contains four regions that serve the somatic and visceral needs of the somatic and visceral needs of the body.the body.
What is the spinal cord?
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This subcortical motor control center This subcortical motor control center forms a ventral bridge between the forms a ventral bridge between the two cerebellar hemispheres.two cerebellar hemispheres.
It contains part of the reticular It contains part of the reticular formationformation..
7 Parts of the CNS7 Parts of the CNS 200200
What is the pons?
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Eye movement and visual and Eye movement and visual and auditory reflexes are controlled by auditory reflexes are controlled by this part.this part.
It contains cranial nerve nuclei: III, It contains cranial nerve nuclei: III, IV, and part of V.IV, and part of V.
It never subdivides during It never subdivides during development.development.
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What is the midbrain?
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This part of the CNS has gray matter This part of the CNS has gray matter located on the outside, folded into located on the outside, folded into sulci and gyri, and is divided in to four sulci and gyri, and is divided in to four lobes.lobes.
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What is the cerebral hemisphere?
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This part of the diencephalon This part of the diencephalon regulates autonomic, endocrine, and regulates autonomic, endocrine, and visceral function.visceral function.
What is the hypothalamus?What is the hypothalamus?
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LobesLobes 100100
This lobe is responsible for the This lobe is responsible for the control of movement, personality, control of movement, personality, and planning for the future.and planning for the future.
It extends from the central sulcus to It extends from the central sulcus to the frontal pole.the frontal pole.
What is the frontal lobe?
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LobesLobes 200200
This lobe is responsible for sensory This lobe is responsible for sensory perception and body image.perception and body image.
It extends from the central sulcus to It extends from the central sulcus to the parietal-occipital sulcus.the parietal-occipital sulcus.
What is the parietal lobe?
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LobesLobes 300300
This lobe is responsible for visual This lobe is responsible for visual perception.perception.
What is the occipital lobe?
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LobesLobes 400400
This lobe is responsible for learning This lobe is responsible for learning and memory.and memory.
It is located inferior to the lateral It is located inferior to the lateral fissure.fissure.
What is the temporal lobe?
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LobesLobes 500500
This physiological system is This physiological system is sometimes referred to as the fifth sometimes referred to as the fifth lobe.lobe.
It is responsible for learning, memory, It is responsible for learning, memory, and emotion.and emotion.
What is the limbic lobe?
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MiscellaneousMiscellaneous 100100
Together these structures form the Together these structures form the longitudinal axis of the CNS.longitudinal axis of the CNS.
What are ascending and descending tracts?
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MiscellaneousMiscellaneous200200
Together these structures form the Together these structures form the segmental axes of the CNS.segmental axes of the CNS.
What are spinal and cranial nerves?
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MiscellaneousMiscellaneous300300
Spinal nerves emerge from Spinal nerves emerge from aboveabove the the corresponding vertebra in this spinal corresponding vertebra in this spinal region.region.
What is the cervical region?
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When a bulging or protruding When a bulging or protruding intervertebral disc impinges on the intervertebral disc impinges on the dorsal roots of a spinal nerve it dorsal roots of a spinal nerve it produces this type of symptoms in this produces this type of symptoms in this location. location.
What is impaired sensation in the corresponding dermatome?
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These are the major neuro-These are the major neuro-developmental events that shape developmental events that shape function after the CNS is formed.function after the CNS is formed.
What are myelination and synaptic pruning?
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Pathology Pathology 100100
These are the cause and major effect These are the cause and major effect of aging on the CNS.of aging on the CNS.
What is the progressive loss of cells and associated decrease in function?
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Pathology Pathology 200200
This principal of organization accounts This principal of organization accounts for why signs and symptoms of for why signs and symptoms of impaired function appear on the side impaired function appear on the side of the body opposite brain damage.of the body opposite brain damage.
What is the fact that longitudinal systems (ascending and descending tracts) are crossed?
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Pathology Pathology 300300
In an immature skull, this condition In an immature skull, this condition produces an enlarged headproduces an enlarged head..
In a mature skull, this condition In a mature skull, this condition produces enlarged ventricles.produces enlarged ventricles.
This condition is most often caused This condition is most often caused by occlusion of the flow of by occlusion of the flow of cerebrospinal fluid.cerebrospinal fluid.What is hydrocephalus?
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Pathology Pathology 400400
This theory explains why damage to a This theory explains why damage to a particular region of the CNS produces particular region of the CNS produces specific functional deficits.specific functional deficits.
What is localization theory?
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