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What sulcus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Lateral Sulcus (or Sylvian Fissure)
What feature is indicated by the white arrow?
The Longitudinal Fissure.
What lobe is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Frontal Lobe
Which lobe is indicated by the red arrow?
The Parietal Lobe
Which lobe is indicated by the red arrow?
The Occipital Lobe
Which lobe is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Temporal Lobe
Which lobe is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Insula
What is the functional role of the Frontal Lobe?
The cortex found in this region is associated with motor control, and, in the pre-frontal area, with judgment, the ability to formulate a plan of action in response to circumstances.
(Side 3)
Also some aspects of memory and smaller functions.
What is the functional role of the Parietal Lobe?
The cortex in this region is associated with somatosensation, and with the integration of sensory information.
What is the functional role of the Occipital Lobe?
The cortex in this region is involved with vision and the processing of visual information.
What is the functional role of the Temporal Lobe?
The cortex in this region is involved with receiving and processing auditory information, speech and olfaction. Also some involvement with the limbic system.
What is the functional role of the Insula?
Possibly nociception and visceral function, but not certain.
What gyrus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Precentral Gyrus.
What gyrus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Superior Frontal Gyrus
What gyrus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Middle Frontal Gyrus
What gyrus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Inferior Frontal Gyrus
What gyrus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Postcentral Gyrus
What gyrus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Supramarginal Gyrus
What gyrus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Angular Gyrus.
What gyrus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Superior Temporal Gyrus.
What gyrus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Middle Temporal Gyrus
What gyrus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Inferior Temporal Gyrus.
What gyri are indicated by the blue arrow?
The Short Gyri of the Insula.
What gyrus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Long Gyrus of the Insula
What sulcus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Precentral Sulcus.
What sulcus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Postcentral Sulcus
What sulcus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Superior Temporal Sulcus
What sulcus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Inferior Temporal Sulcus
What structure is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Medulla Oblongata
What structure is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Pons
What structure is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Cerebellum
What sulcus is indicated by the white arrow?
The Cingulate Sulcus.
What sulcus is indicated by the white arrow?
The Sulcus of the Corpus Callosum (Callosal Sulcus)
What sulcus is indicated by the yellow arrow?
The Parieto-occipital Sulcus
What sulcus is indicated by the white arrow(s)?
The Calcarine Sulcus.
What is the importance of the Calcarine Sulcus as a landmark?
The primary visual cortex is located on either side of this sulcus.
What gyrus is indicated by the white arrow?
The Cingulate Gyrus.
What structure is indicated by the white arrow?
The Corpus Callosum
What gyrus is indicated by the white arrow?
The Parahippocampal Gyrus
What structure is indicated by the white arrow?
The Uncus
What are the Cingulate Gyrus, the Parahippocampal Gyrus and the Uncus collectively called?
The "Limbic Lobe." (along with some associated structures)
What does the Limbic System do?
It is involved with emotion and certain kinds of memory.
What information does the Uncus receive?
It receives olfactory input
What region of the Corpus Callosum is indicated by the yellow arrow?
The Rostrum.
What region of the Corpus Callosum is indicated by the yellow arrow?
The Genu
What region of the Corpus Callosum is indicated by the yellow arrow?
The Body
What region of the Corpus Callosum is indicated by the yellow arrow?
The Splenium
What is the role of the Corpus Callosum?
It connects the right and left cerebral hemispheres, ensuring communication through commissural fibres.
What collection of fibres is indicated by the yellow arrow?
The Anterior Commissure
What collection of fibres is indicated by the yellow arrow?
The Posterior Commissure.
What collection of fibres is indicated by the yellow arrow?
The Fornix.
What two lobes are connected by the Anterior Commissure?
The right and left Temporal Lobes.
What foramen is indicated by the yellow arrow?
The Interventricular Foramen.
What structure is indicated by the white arrow?
The Corpora Quadrigemina (well, a part of it)
What structure is indicated by the white arrow?
The Cerebral Aqueduct.
What structure is indicated by the white arrow?
The Cerebral Aqueduct.
What is the function of the Posterior Commissure?
It consists of axons which mediate reflexes associated with pupillary constriction.
What portion of the Fornix is indicated by the white arrow?
The Body.
What portion of the Fornix is indicated by the white arrow?
One of the Columns.
What septum is indicated by the white arrow?
The Septum Pellucidum.
What structure is indicated by the white arrow?
The Thalamus.
What structure is indicated by the orange arrow?
The Hypothalamus.
What structure is indicated by the orange arrow?
The Pineal Body.
What is the function of the Thalamus?
Its nuclei process sensory, motor, and limbic information, along with a variety of other kinds of information which are then sent to the cerebral cortex.
What is the function of the Hypothalamus?
It's intimately involved in the control of visceral activity and in the maintenance of homeostasis.
Certain regions are also involved with the limbic system.
It acts both with neurologic control and with hormonal control (as an endocrine organ).
What is the function of the Pineal Body?
It secretes melatonin.
What gyrus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Gyrus Rectus (or Straight Gyrus)
What structure is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Olfactory Bulb
What tract is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Olfactory Tract.
What sulcus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Olfactory Sulcus
What structure is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Medial Olfactory Stria
What structure is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Lateral Olfactory Stria.
What structure is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Anterior Perforated Substance
What gyri are indicated by the blue arrows?
The Orbital Gyri
What gyrus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Inferior Temporal Gyrus.
What gyri are indicated by the blue arrows?
The Occipitotemporal Gyri (lateral and medial)
What gyrus is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Parahippocampal Gyrus.
What structure is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Uncus
(a prominent bump on the Parahyppocampal Gyrus)
What (dissected out) nerve is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Optic Nerve.
What structure is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Optic Chiasm (or chiasma)
What happens at the Optic Chiasma?
There is a partial crossing of the Optic Nerves.
What structure is indicated by the blue arrow?
An Optic Tract.
Where do the Optic Tracts terminate?
Mainly in the lateral geniculate bodies of the thalamus.
What structure is indicated by the blue arrow?
A Mamillary Body
What are the Mamillary Bodies?
Two hypothalamic nuclei that receive input from the limbic lobe via the fornix.
Which division of the brainstem is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Medulla Oblongata.
Which division of the brainstem is indicated by the blue arrow?
The (Basilar) Pons
Which division of the brainstem is indicated by the blue arrow?
The (Basilar) Pons
Which structure is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Olive of the Medulla Oblongata.
Which region of the brain is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Cerebellum
What is the branching white matter indicated by the blue arrow?
The Arbor Vitae (the Tree of Life)
Which space is indicated by the blue arrow?

What does it do?
The Cerebral Aqueduct, connecting the Third and Fourth Ventricles.
What structure is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Corpora Quadrigemina (Quadrigeminal Plate)
What structure is indicated by the blue arrow?
A Superior Colliculus of the Quadrigeminal Plate

(there are two superior colliculi)
What is the function of the Superior Colliculi of the Corpora Quadrigemina?
They are involved with visual functions.
What structure is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Basis Pedunculi

(The Cerebral Crus is the anterior surface of the Cerebral Peduncle, another name for Basis Pedunculi)
What surface is indicated by the blue arrow?
The Posterior Perforated Substance.
What is the space located anterior to the Posterior Perforated Surface?
The Interpeduncular Fossa.
Describe the fibers of the Basilar Pons.
They are Transverse Fibers, and they cross over the anterior surface of the brainstem and continue into the Cerebellum.
What tracts are indicated by the blue arrows?
The Pyramidal Tracts of the medulla.