The medical practice of means "to bore a hole into the skull".
Claudius Galen was a physician who studied the cerebrum, cerebellum, and by .
Ibn al-Haythan proposed occurred in the brain and wrote "The Book of Optics".
Mansurs Ibn Ilyas was a .
The Greek researcher, , thought the heart was the center of thought.
The Greek researcher, , is known as the , and discovered that the brain is involved in sensation.
Beregarius de Carpi was an anatomist who preformed public dissections and re-articulated a human skeleton.
Rene Descartes:
believed the "mind" resided in the pineal gland
rearticulated a human skeleton
perfected the microscope
studied the four humors
Who perfected the microscope?
Beregarius de Carpi
Leonardo da Vinci
Claudius Galen
Leeuwenhoek
Luigi Galvani discovered stimulation on nerves could cause , and noticed consistent and patterning that lead to the recognition of cerebral .
Charles Bell differentiated between and neurons.
Richard Caton detected signals from the brain, also known as waves.
Camillo Golgi performed staining and showed that the nervous system adhered to .
The ridges of the cerebral cortex are known as , while the smaller grooves of the cortex are called .
The retina is part of the PNS.
The inferior colliculus is responsible for and is located in the .
The diencephalon contains four parts: the , , and .
The habenula is the and is located in the .
The , also known as the , produces melatonin.
Choose all correct parts of the telencephalon.
lateral ventricles
amygdala
basal ganglion (basal telencephalon)
hippocampus
thalamus
cortex
olfactory cortex
hypothalamus
optic cortex
tegmentum
The mesencephalon contains three parts: the , and .
Holoblastic cleavage is when there is cell division and the absence of large concentrations of in the fertilized cell.
The myelencephalon controls motor nuclei that are responsible for the regulation of blood pressure, digestion, and heart rate.
The metencephalon controls
fine motor movement
breathing
speech production
involuntary reflexes (coughing, sneezing, vomiting, etc.)
The myelencephalon is also called the .
The metencephalon contains the and .
A lack of cerebrospinal fluid drainage results in .
Which of the following is not part of the brain stem?
Medulla oblongata
Pons
Tectum
Tegmentum
Cerebellum
Mesencephalon
The visceral PNS is responsible for stimulating gland secretion.
A collection of axons in the PNS is called a . A collection of axons in the CNS is called a .
is the term that refers to the brain being smooth.
There are 12 14 10 13( 12, 14, 10, 13 ) pairs of spinal nerves.
The cauda equina is a collection of 12 10 4 2( 12, 10, 4, 2 ) nerves at the base of the spine.
The division of the PNS controls muscle movement.
In which major brain structure would you find the third ventricle?
The cerebellum
The mesencephalon
The diencephalon
The rhombencephalon
The cerebrum
The three primary germ layers are the , and , and the is responsible for the origin of the nervous system.
cleavage is when there is complete cell division, whereas cleavage includes little to no cell division.
The acronym IACUC stands for the Institution of .
Broca's area is responsible for
speech comprehension
proprioception
sleep regulation
imaging takes advantage of the fact that water flows along the length of an axon.
DTI provides large images of
cell bodies
brain activity
axon tracts
the cerebral cortex
are protrusions into the venous sinuses that provide a point of entry for CSF into the venous blood.
The houses the motor cortex.
The body makes approximately mLs of CSF per day.
was a 17th century French invention that reinforced 2nd century ideas of how the brain initiated movement.
of the is a rare congenital disorder of white matter that connects the two cerebral hemispheres.
The filum terminale connects the medullary cone to the lumbar vertebrae.
The arachnoid trabeculae is a delicate connective tissue between the and .
Ganglia are in the PNS.
List the function of the following: the cerebellum-- ; the hypothalamus-- ; the thalamus-- center
Which type of cell could differentiate into a twin embryo?
Pluripotent
Totipotent
Multipotent
Which cell manufactures homatopoetic stem cells (adult stem cells) from bone marrow?
Which type of cell can differentiate into any form of bodily tissue, and is known as a "stem cell"?
is the thinning and spreading of over underlying macromere cells.
Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) is a
hormone
morphogen
brain cell
drug
In humans, the blastula is known as the .
A high concentration of Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) causes cells to develop into cells, while mid-level concentrations cause development, and low concentrations create .
is the process of rapid cell division with no cell growth.
refers to the equal distribution of yolk throughout the ovum cytoplasm, while refers to uneven yolk distribution at one end of a zygote.
Anencephaly occurs when
the anterior neuropore does not completely close
the posterior neuropore does not completely close
the expecting mother does not get enough folic acid in her diet
Critical period #1 involves .
The rhomboid fossa is closed as the develops.
The interior neuropore is closed as the develops.
Neural crest cells form
motor neurons of the PNS
sensory neurons of the PNS
motor neurons of the CNS
sensory neurons of the CNS
The three long axon pathways in the CNS are , and .
The associational long axon pathway is white matter tract involved in
connecting cortical & subcortical pathways
generating homologous hemispherical parts
connecting one neuron to another neuron
connecting one part of the cortex to another
The projection long axon pathway is involved in
input integration
connecting subcortical and cortical structures
generating homologous hemispherical structures
The commissural long axon pathway is involved in
connecting the cerebrum and cerebellum
The connects the cerebrum to the cerebellum or brain stem.
is the process of programmed cell death, also called "pruning".
