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| Failure of the neural tube to close at the top is known as what? |
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| Failure of the neural tube to close at the bottom is known as what? |
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| This is one of the three primitive subdivisions of the brain |
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| This is one of the three primitive subdivisions of the brain |
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| This is one of the three primitive subdivisions of the brain |
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| The cerebrum and diencephalon come from this division of the brain |
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| The thalamus, epithalamus, hypothalamus, and subthalamus all make up this subdivision of prosencephalon |
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| The pons, cerebellum, and medulla come from this division of the brain |
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| The cerebral hemispheres (olfactory system, corpus striatum, cortex white, and grey matter) all make up this subdivision of prosencephalon |
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| The midbrain (tectum, tegmentum, cerebral peduncles) is made up of this tissue |
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| The hindbrain is made from this tissue |
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| What fraction of the cortex is "hidden"? |
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| This term refers to the clefts separating different components of the brain |
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| These are the primary somatosensory areas |
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| This is the primary motor cortex |
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| This is the primary visual cortex |
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| These are the primary auditory cortexes |
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| This area is posterior to the central sulcus |
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| This area is anterior to the central sulcus |
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| This lobe of the brain is responsible for learning, recall, subjective emotions |
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| This lobe of the brain is responsible for motor speech |
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| This lobe of the brain is responsible for perception and interpretation of spoken words |
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| This lobe of the brain is responsible for involuntary/autoimmune activities, taste, and smell |
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| This lobe of the brain is responsible for the primary auditory cortex |
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| This lobe of the brain is responsible for the primary visual cortex |
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| Broca's area is responsible for this |
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| Wernicke's area is responsible for this |
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| Receptive language (interpretation) |
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| Fibres use this to get to and from the cerebrum |
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| This part of the brain is known as the emotional amplifier - controls memory, decision making, and emotional responses |
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| The septum in the brain is full of this type of tissue |
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| What type of tissue makes of the walls of the third ventricle? |
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| Which of the following types of tissues sits between the others, and thus ascending fibers must pass through it forming the internal capsule - mesencephalon, diencephalon, telencephalon |
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| Which part of the midbrain deals with auditory processing? |
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| Which part of the midbrain deals with ocular reflexes? |
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| What term refers to the two big thick stalks where everything needs to come down through to get to the brainstem proper? |
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| What is the function of the medial geniculate body/nucleus? |
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| Auditory processing - represents the thalamic relay between the inferior colliculus and the auditory cortex |
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| The relay and integrative centre of the brain |
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| This part of the brain has integrative control of the autonomic nervous system |
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| Lesions to the ventral posterolateral nucleus result in this |
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| Heaviness of limbs, thalamic pain |
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| Lesions to the ventral posteromedial nucleus result in this |
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| The VPL and VPM are major relay stations for what? |
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| Somatosensory information |
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| The pineal gland secretes this substance |
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| What effect can the pineal gland have on other endocrine systems? |
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| These cranial nerves come from above the pons |
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I, II, III
Olfactory, Optic, Occulomotor |
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| These cranial nerves come from the back of the brainstem |
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| These cranial nerves come from the pons-medullary junction |
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VI-XII
Abducens, Facial, Vestibulocochlear, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Accessory, Hypoglossal |
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| This cranial nerve comes out of the pyramid and olive |
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| This part of the midbrain is responsible for auditory and visual reflexes |
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| The superior and inferior corniculus make up this part of the midbrain |
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| These cranial nerves lie between the olive and the cuneate versiculus |
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IX, X, XI
Glossopharyngeal, vagus, accessory |
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| These type of cranial nerves come off the ventral aspect of the midbrain |
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| Somatic efferents (motor) |
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| These type of cranial nerves come off the dorsal aspect of the midbrain |
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| Somatic afferents (sensory) |
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| Loss of coordination, imbalance, changes in tone, and loss of complex neural interactions are all possible outcomes of lesions to this area of the brain |
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| How much of the cerebellum is hidden? |
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| One of the areas where plaques are more likely to occur |
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| Origin of vertebral artery |
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| One of the areas where plaques are more likely to occur |
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| One of the areas where plaques are more likely to occur |
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| One of the areas where plaques are more likely to occur |
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| Most of the medial surface of the brain is supplied by this artery |
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| A lot of the occipital lobe and inferior surface of the temporal lobe is supplied by this artery |
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| Posterior cerebral artery |
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| Aphasia, and contralateral sensorimotor defects suggest an occlusion of this artery |
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| Lower limb weakness (contralateral) suggests occlusion of this artery |
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| Sensory loss, visual loss - hemianopia (blindness over half field of vision) suggest occlusion of this artery |
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| Posterior cerebral artery |
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| Frontopontine and thalamocortical fibres are found in this part of the internal capsule |
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| Corticobulbar fibres are found in this part of the internal capsule |
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| Corticospinal (motor), sensory from the body, and few corticobulbar fibres are found in this part of the internal capsule |
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| Lenticulostriate branches off of this artery supplies the anterior limb of the internal capsule |
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| Branches of middle cerebral artery and recurrent artery of Heubner off of the anterior cerebral artery |
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| Lenticulostriate branches off of this artery supplies the genu of the internal capsule |
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| Lenticulostriate branches off of this artery supplies the posterior limb of the internal capsule |
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| Middle cerebral artery and internal choroidal artery off of the internal carotid artery |
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