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CNS and nerves
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Anatomy
Intermediate
10/18/2017

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Term
Longitudinal fissure
Definition
seperates the 2 brain hemispheres
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Precentral gyrus
Definition
Contains primary motor cortex
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Anterior to precentral gyrus
Definition
location of pre motor cortex
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lobe involved with hearing and smell
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temporal lobe
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occipital lobe
Definition
posterior region of brain hemisphere
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occipital lobe
Definition
responsible for visual processing and visual memory storage
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Primary somatosensory cortex location
Definition
postcental gyrus of parietal lobes
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How many brodmann areas
Definition
44
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Primary visual cortex
Definition
located in occipital lobe, recieval and proccessing visual information
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primary auditory cortex
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located in temporal lobe, recieves and processes auditory information
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primary gustatory cortex
Definition
taste processing, in insula lobe
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primary olfactory cortex
Definition
temporal lobe, processes smell
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premotor cortex
Definition
associated with learnt behaviour such as typing or playing an instrument, located anterior to precentral gyrus
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somatosensory association area
Definition
posterior to primary somatosensory cortex, integrates and interprets sensory information like touch, texture, pressure to determine objects based off stored information
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central white matter
Definition
comprised of myelinated axons grouped into bundles called tracts
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cerebral nuclei
Definition
paired, irregular masses of grey matter deep within the white matter in the basal region of the cerebral hemispheres
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Diancephalon
Definition
"in between brain" comprised of the thalymus, hypothalymus and epithalymus
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epithalymus
Definition
Houses pineal gland, covers 3rd ventricle
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thalymus
Definition
principal and final point of sensory information
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hypothalymus
Definition
anteroinferior region of the diancephalon. connects to pituitary gland via thin infundibulum
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Brainstem components
Definition
Midbrain, pons, medulla oblongata
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Oculomotor nerve and trochlea nerve location
Definition
housed in midbrain
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