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What are the directions in the 3D space of the brain?
What is the midline?
What is the neuraxis?
What direction does anterior/rostral refer to?
What direction does posterior/caudal refer to?
What direction does dorsal refer to?
What direction does ventral refer to?
What direction does medial refer to?
What direction does lateral refer to?
What are the 3 planes of section in the CNS?
What is the sagittal plane?
What is the midsagittal plane?
What is the coronal/frontal plane?
What is the horizontal plane?
What is the difference between nuclei and ganglia?
What is the difference between afferent and efferent?
What is the difference between contralateral and ipsilateral?
What are the 5 major divisions of the brain at maturity?
What is the first development of the CNS?
What does the neural tube first develop into?
What does the forebrain develop into?
What does the midbrain develop into?
What does the hindbrain develop into?
What are meninges?
What are the 3 layers of the meninges?
What is the dura mater?
What is the arachnoid membrane?
What is the subarachnoid space?
What is the pia mater?
What is cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)?
What are ventricles?
What is the choroid plexus?
What is the path for the circulation of CSF?
What part of the brain is the telencephalon located in?
What does the telencephalon contain?
What are the structural features of the human cortex?
What is a sulcus?
What is a gyrus?
What are the structural divisions of the cortex?
Where is the frontal lobe?
Where is the parietal lobe?
Where is the temporal lobe?
Where is the occipital lobe?
What are the 3 large regions of the cortex that receive sensory information?
What is the region of cortex involved in control of movement?
What are association areas?
What are the 2 association areas of the cortex?
What is the sensory association cortex involved in?
What is the motor association cortex involved in?
What is the function of the prefrontal cortex?
Where is the prefrontal cortex?
What connects the two cerebral hemispheres?
What is lateralization?
How is most information in the brain projected?
What does it mean to "split the brain"?
What is the left hemisphere primarily responsible for?
What is the right hemisphere primarily responsible for?
Where are language and speech lateralized?
What is the function of the Wernicke's area?
What is the function of the Broca's area?
Where is emotion recognition and facial expression production lateralized?
What has an advantage in recognizing facial expressions and emotion in the tone of voice?
What is Gazzaniga's theory about the hemispheres?
What does Gazzaniga's theory state as its advantages to a dual system?
How do we get evidence for lateralization?
What is split-brain surgery used as a last-resort treatment for?
How are gray matter and white matter structured in the cortex?
How are the layers structured in the cortex?
Where is the diencephalon located in the brain?
What structures does the diencephalon contain?
What do the thalamus and hypothalamus surround?
Where is the thalamus?
What is the thalamus?
What is the primary function of the thalamus?
Where is the hypothalamus located?
What does the hypothalamus contain?
What is the function of the hypothalamus?
What is the pituitary gland controlled by?
What are neurosecretory cells?
What are the 2 divisions of the pituitary gland?
What does the anterior pituitary do?
What is the posterior pituitary?
What 3 divisions of the brain contain limbic system?
What is the limbic system involved in?
What structures are in the limbic system?
What is the hippocampus?
What is the amygdala?
What is the fornix?
What are mammillary bodies?
What is the cingulate gyrus?
What are the septum pellucidum/septal nuclei?
What is the nucleus accumbens?
Which two divisions of the brain contain the basal ganglia?
What is the basal ganglia?
What 3 structures comprise the basal ganglia?
What is the striatum?
What division of the brain is the Mesencephalon?
What is surrounded by the mesencephalon?
What are the two primary structures of the mesencephalon?
Where is the tectum located?
What are the 2 systems in the tectum?
What are the inferior colliculi involved in?
What are the superior colliculi involved in?
Where is the tegmentum located?
What structures is the tegmentum comprised of?
What is the reticular formation?
What are the oculomotor nuclei?
What is the PAG?
What is the red nucleus?
What is the SN?
What is the VTA?
What division of the brain contains the Metencephalon?
What comprises the metencephalon?
What is the pons?
What is the function of the pons?
What is the cerebellum?
What is the cerebellum involved in?
Where is the myelencephalon located?
What is the myelencephalon comprised of?
What is the medulla?
What is the origin of the spinal cord?
What is the spinal cord?
What are the functions of the spinal cord?
What protects the spinal cord?
What is the cauda equina?
How is the spinal cord structured?
What is the dorsal root?
What is the ventral root?
What makes the spinal cord the opposite of the brain?
