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Brainstem
Brainstem
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Anatomy
Graduate
04/12/2010

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Term
Long Tracts in the Brain Stem
Definition

Ascending Sensory tracts:

   -Post Column Med. lemniscal (Fine touch, vibration)

   -Anterolateral System (pain, crude touch)

Descending Motor Tracts:

   -Corticospinal (Extremities & trunk)

   -Corticobulbar (motor fibers for face)

Descending Sypathetic Pathway

Term
Rostral Reticular Formation
Definition

1)  Maintain alert and conscious state

2)  Regulate attention

3)  Regulate sleep wake cycle

4)  Contribute to emotional balance

Term
Caudal Reticular Formation
Definition

1) Respiration and HR and BP

2) Motor tasks (maintaining posture, locomotion)

3) Abnormal decorticate or decerebrate posturing

4) Coughing, hiccuping, sneezing, yawning, shivering gagging, vomitting, crying, laughing

5) Sphincter control

6) Pain modulation

Term
PICA- Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery
Definition

Supplies the lateral medulla and inferior cerebellum

Term
AICA - Anterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery
Definition

Supplies the lateral, caudal pons and some of cerebellum

 

 

Term
SCA - Superior Cerebellar Artery
Definition
Supplies the superior cerebellum and some of pons
Term
PCA - Posterior Cerebral Artery
Definition
Supplies the midbrain, thalamus, medialoccipital lobes, inferior-medial temporal lobes
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