Why is proper nutrition important to the brain, and what is the main nutrient it requires?
What structure separates the two cerebral hemispheres?
What is the largest portion of the brain?
What is the second largest portion of the brain?
Is the CEREBRUM made of grey matter or white matter?
What is grey matter made up of?
What is white matter made up of?
What is the purpose of having gyri and sulci in the brain?
What are the two halves of the cerebrum called?
What area connects the right and left halves of the brain?
What would be the effect of cutting this structure?
What disorder has problems with communication between the right and left halves of the brain?
What is the second largest portion of the brain? What’s its function?
What are the three parts of the brain stem?
The PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX contains what type of neurons?
What is the effect of damage to Brodmann areas 18 and 19?
What area of the brain receives signals for touch and pressure?
What area of the brain interprets signals for touch and pressure?
What area of the brain contains the homunculus?
What area of the brain receives signals from the eyes?
What lobe is this area in?
What area of the brain interprets signals from the eyes?
What area of the brain receives signals from sounds?
What area of the brain interprets signals from sounds?
Which lobe coordinates PLANNING AND JUDGMENT?
Do neurons regenerate?
What part of the brain controls memory of events?
Where are memories stored in the brain?
What is the most common form of dementia?
What type of amnesia is when people can’t remember anything new?
What is one of the most likely causes of amnesia?
In what system of the brain is memory, emotion, and smelllinked?
What part of the brain that exerts more control over autonomic functioning than any other part?
What is the main visceral control center of the brain?
What does the hypothalamus control?
What part of the brain sorts out all the unnecessary sensory information?
What part of the brain is the BIOLOGICAL CLOCK and is responsible for jet lag?
What part of the brain controls visual and audio REFLEXES?
What part of the brain relays sensory information between the cerebellum and cerebrum?
What part of the brain controls autonomic functions such as breathing, blood pressure, and heart rate?
What part of the brain controls balance and coordination?
What is the tough meningeal layer called?
What meningeal layer is between the dura mater and pia mater?
Which one of the meninges follows the brain surface into a cerebral sulcus?
Where is Cerebrospinal fluid located?
The subaracbnoid space lies between what two layers of meninges?
What type of injection is between L3 and L4, above the dura mater, so only the nerves are affected?
What makes CEREBRAL SPINAL FLUID?
Where is CSF located?
What are the functions of CSF?
What causes HYDROCEPHALY?
What two types of organisms cause MENINGITIS? Which one is worse?
What is the main symptom of meningitis?
What test is done to diagnose meningitis?
What is infection of the brain called and how is it caused?
Definal subdural or subarachnoid hemorrhage
Name the main ventricles of the brain, and which is largest?
Define CSF:
What fluid is it similar to?
Where is it made?
What structure makes it?
What type of capillaries does it come out of, and to where does it spreadW
Define closed head injury
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