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5 Matching Questions

  1. Internal Carotid Arteries and Vertebral Arteries
  2. External Hydrocephalus
  3. Calcarine fissure
  4. Central Sulcus
  5. 1. Sensory Areas
    2. Motor Areas
    3. Association Areas
  1. a -Excess fluid in subarachnoid space
    -Found in senile atrophy of brain
  2. b -4 arteries that supply the brain with blood (2 of each kind)
  3. c What are the 3 functional divisions of the Cerebral Cortex?
  4. d Courses along fissure on medial portion of occipital lobe of primary visual area
  5. e Each of the cerebrum (telencephalon) hemispheres is divided almost in the middle by a sulcus. (seperates frontal lobe from the parietal lobe)

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Inability to understand spoken words
    -May understand written
    -Wernike's area
  2. -Interventricular Foramen
    -Allows communication between third ventricle and 2 lateral ventricles
  3. -located just medial to temporal horn of the lateral ventricle
    -part of lymbic system
  4. -Circulates in subarachnoid space
    -Formed by epithelial cells in choroid plexus
    -80-200mls (average 130mls)
    -Fluid is clear and colorless (very few cells)
    -Lymphocytes over 10ml =disease (low glucose and low protein content)
  5. Things that are not able to cross from the blood to the CNS (because capillaries of brain have tight junctions that regulate)

5 True/False Questions

  1. Superior Cerebellar Peduncle-Large Fiber bundle between cerebellum and midbrain
    -Connects Cerebellum to the rest of the CNS

          

  2. Cerebral aquaduct-Found in Midbrain
    -Fibers descending from the brain (cortex) and ascending to the thalamus

          

  3. PainDamage to any one of the language areas may result in a specific clinical problem -inability to speak

          

  4. Corpus StraitumBand of fibers connecting the two hemispheres along the longitudinal fissure

          

  5. Caudate Nucleus-Nuclei Found in Basal Ganglia
    -Damage results in paralysis of the opposite side