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| singular elevated ridge on cerebral cortex |
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| groove on cerebral cortex |
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| dark gap beside pineal gland and below corpus callosum |
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| connects hypothalamus to pituitary gland, ventral (in front of) to the hypothalamus |
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| caudal end of hypothalamus; oval area posterior to the optic chiasma; olfactory relay station |
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| longitudinal slit that's immediately below the choroid process |
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| thalamus midline commissure connected right and left thalamus halves |
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| Anterior to Hypothalamus; where optic nerves decussate; |
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| leads from the optic chiasma and terminates in the lateral geniculate body |
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| functions in initial processing of visual information; lateral to the colliculi |
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| region known as the midbrain |
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| roof of midbrain comprised of the corpora quadrigemina |
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| Four prominent round swellings in midbrain |
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| Large, anterior swellings on midbrain; coordinate head & eye movements when visually tracking an object |
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| smaller, posterior swellings on midbrain; audiotry relay stations and integrating auditory reflex center |
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| arise slightly posterior to the inferior colliculi; carries motor fibers to & proprioceptor fibers from one of the extrinsic eye muscles |
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| anterior to the pons, posterior to the mammillary body of hypothalamus; bulging pair on ventrolateral surface of midbrain |
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| ventral portion of brainstem; bulges out posterior to the cerebral peduncles |
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| large nerve that extends across the base of the middle cerebellar peduncle; control the chewing muscles and carry afferent info to the head and face |
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| arises from the trapezoid body; supplies motor fibers to one extrinsic eye muscle & conveys proprioceptive info from that muscle |
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| between cerebellum & medulla oblongata; in central canal |
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| midventral groove of medulla |
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| longitudinal bands on tissue beside ventral median fissure; comprised of corticospinal tracts (phyramidal system) |
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| oval swellings lateral to the pyramids and posterior to the trapezoid body |
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