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Gross Neuroanatomy
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/12/2014

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Term
NERVOUS SYSTEM
Definition

CNS- spinal chord, brain

PNS- autonomic, somatic

Term
Autonomic NS
Definition

Glands and organs.

Unaware


 

AFFERENT signals: to CNS

EFFERENT signals: from CNS


Efferent:

Sympathetic NS: excites- fight or flight

Parasympathetic NS: inhibits- resting activities

 

Term
Somatic NS
Definition

Skin, muscles and joints.

Aware.


AFFERENT signals- to CNS (somosensory)

EFFERENT signals- from CNS (primary motor area)

 

Term
Brain areas
Definition

Rostral- front

Caudal- back

Ventral- bottom

Dorsal- top

Term
Lobes
Definition

Frontal: planning, control impulses, social, attention.

Parietal: spatial perception (from sensory information), sense of touch.

Temporal: language, hearing, object recognition.

Occipital: vision

 

Term
SULCI and GIRI
Definition

Sulci: depressions

Sylvian fissure

Central sulcus

Temporal-occipital sulcus

Interhemispheric fissure


Giri: bumps

Pre-central gyrus: efferent, primary motor area

Post-central gyrus: afferent, somatosensory area

 

 

Term
Brain Matter
Definition

Gray: bodies of nerve cells

White: nerve axons

 

*surface gray matter: cerebral cortex

 

Term
Brain Structures
Definition

Subcortical structures: 

-hypothalamus -hyppocampus


Medial structures:

-corpus callosum -thalamus (info from eyes)

-brainstem (signals towards spinal chord)

Term
Circle of Willis
Definition

Redistributes blood in brain if a major supply is blocked.

 

Anterior cerebral artery (to front of brain)

Posterior cerebral artery

 (to back of brain)

Term
Cerebrospinal Fluid
Definition

Area between meninges filled with cerebrospinal fluid and connective tissue.

Cushion and absorb shocks

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