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Neuroscience
A flashcard list of important terms and section based on the great books "Understanding the Brain" course
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Undergraduate 1
12/27/2010

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What is dualism?
Definition
A belief that the mind and the body are distinct entities
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What does "gross" refer to?
Definition
General or big picture stuff, generaly able to be seen w/o a microscope
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What does the central nervous system contain?
Definition
the CNS consists of the brain and the spinal cord
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What is the hole in the skull called through which the spinal cord connects to the brain?
Definition
the foramen magnum
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What does the Peripheral nervouse system contain?
Definition
the PNS consists of any neural element that lies outside of the brain and spinal chord
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What does rostral mean?
Definition
anterior, superior, or towards the face
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What does caudal mean?
Definition
towards the tail, back, posterior
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What does dorsal mean?
Definition
upper surface
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What does ventral mean?
Definition
upper surface
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What does medial mean?
Definition
towards the midline of the body
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What does lateral mean?
Definition
away from the midline of the body
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What are the five gross divisions of the brain moving from rostral to caudal?
Definition
The telencephalon, the diencephalon, the mesencephalon, the metencephalon and the myelencephalon
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Wii: telencephalon
(Wii: whats in it, what does it consist of)
Definition
outer two hemispheres of the brain, the two cerebral hemispheres
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wii: diencephalon
Definition
thalamus and hypothalamus
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What does mesencephalon mean?
Definition
mid brain
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wii: metencephalon
Definition
cerebellum and the pons
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What is the importance of the myelencephalon?
Definition
it connects to the spinal cord through the foramen magnum
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What is the most recently evolved area of the brain?
Definition
the telencephalon
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What is the cortex?
Definition
The very outer part of the telencephalon
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Where is the thalamus found?
Definition
in the diencephalon
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What does the word thalamus mean?
Definition
anteroom or the room before
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Why is the thalamus appropriately named?
Definition
pretty much all info that needs to get to the cortex needs to go through the thalamus
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Where is the hypothalamus located?
Definition
In the diencephalon below thethalamus
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What is the overall function of the hypothalamus?
Definition
maintaining homeostasis
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What is the overall function for the midbrain, or the mesencephalon?
Definition
relexes
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What is the rostral, or superior, colliculus?
Definition
visual reflexes
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Where is the rostral colliculus?
Definition
in the mesencephalon
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Where is the pons?
Definition
in the metencephalon
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What does pons mean?
Definition
bridge
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Why is the pons aptly named?
Definition
The pons is the bridge between the cortex, which initiates a gross motor movement, and the cerebellum, which fine tunes the movement
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What other names does the myelencephalon have?
Definition
medulla or medulla oblongata
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wii: Forebrain
Definition
the telencephalon and the diencephalon
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wii: Hindbrain
Definition
the caudal subdivisions of the brain including the metencephalon and the myelencephalon
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wii: brainstem
Definition
the mesencephalon, metencephalon, and myelencephalon which the diencephalon and telencephalon sit upon
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