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3.05 TELENCEPHALON
NOREEN TRINIDAD, MD | JUNE 19, 2022
LEGENDS
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I. SUPRATENTORIAL
A. Diencephalon
• Thalamus
• Hypothalamus
• Optic Nerve
• Pituitary Gland → Provides widespread input to the cerebral cortex
• Pineal Gland and is intimately connected with the Limbic
System
B. Telencephalon
• Arises from the lateral evaginations of the most The outermost layer of the cerebral hemispheres is
rostral portion of the embryonic neural tube the cerebral cortex. The cortex is on the outermost
(prosencephalon) and gives rise to the cerebral part and it contains the neurons which have migrated
hemisphere to this location during embryonic development. This
• The two cerebral hemispheres fill most of the cranial neurons form a thin mantle of gray mater. When we
cavity above the tentorium cerebelli and are talk about neurons it’s the gray mater and for nerve
separated by the falx cerebri. fibers it’s white mater tracts. The ventral portion of the
• Each cerebral hemisphere consists of cerebral telencephalon constitutes the basal forebrain and this
cortex, subcortical white matter, and basal provides widespread input to the cerebral cortex and
ganglia as well as the thalamus (a diencephalic intimately connected with limbic system, so yan yung
structure) emotions, affective, reactive tayo.
● Paralimbic Cortex
→ Located in the medial part of the hemisphere. • Frontal Lobe
→ Degree of differentiation intermediate between → contains primary, association, paralimbic, and
the limbic cortex and neocortex limbic areas. It includes the primary motor cortex
→ Parahippocampal Cortex (M1) located in the precentral gyrus (area 4) and
→ Cingulate Cortex the lateral premotor and supplementary motor
areas (lateral and medial area 6, respectively).
Pag nakarinig na ng “para” ibig sabihin katabi, so → Most of the frontal lobe is occupied by the
katabi ng limbic cortex. It is located on the medial wall prefrontal cortex, which is subdivided into the
of your hemisphere and portions of the frontal and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the
temporal lobes of the insula. orbitomedial prefrontal cortex, which is
paralimbic cortex
● Neocortex
→ Includes most of the frontal, parietal, temporal, When we talk about primary motor it’s the gyri
occipital and insular lobes and is involved in the infront of the central sulcus. Other functions of
processing of sensory information, object frontal lobe like executive function, ex. when you
recognition, motor programming and control, cook alam niyo yung pagkasunod sunod ng
language, attention, decision making and control pagluto ng adobo. This is responsible for
behavior. planning, judgement, decision making for the
→ Forming most of the frontal, parietal temporal and premotor areas, ibig sabihin before ka pa
occipital lobes. gumalaw you plan before you execute it. Ang
→ Most differentiated broca’s area ay nasa inferior frontal.
→ Most of the lobes are on lateral surface
→ Includes Primary Sensory and motor areas • Parietal Lobe
→ Unimodal association cortex – modality-specific → Contains the primary somatosensory cortex
→ Heteromodal/ Multimodal association cortex: (S1) in the postcentral gyrus (areas 3a, 3b, 1, and
receives and integrates input from several 2), which is surrounded by unimodal
sensory modalities. somatosensory association areas.
→ Most of the parietal lobe consists of the posterior
parietal cortex, which is a heteromodal sensory
association area
→ It includes the superior parietal lobule and the
inferior parietal lobule separated by the
intraparietal sulcus.
→ The inferior parietal lobule includes the
supramarginal gyrus and angular gyrus.
• Temporal Lobe
→ The superior aspect contains the transverse
gyri of Heschl, which correspond to the primary
auditory cortex (area 41), surrounded by the
unimodal auditory association area (area 42).
→ The lateral aspect of the temporal lobe contains
the superior and medial temporal gyri, which are
Unimodal ito yung mga areas that surround each heteromodal sensory association areas.
primary. So may unimodal sensory at unimodal → The posterior portion of the superior temporal
motor. For example may modality sa pain, so gyrus and adjacent supramarginal gyrus in
napaka specific niyan. When we talk about theleft hemisphere correspond to Wernicke
heteromodal, this surrounds the unimodal area.
association areas. They receive and integrate input → The inferior aspect of the temporal lobe and
from several sensory modalities. adjacent parts of the occipital cortex (inferior
As our brains are developing nadedevelop din yung occipitotemporal cortex) are a unimodal visual
functional connections to your neocortex. It association area and include the lingual gyrus
and fusiform gyrus.
Caudate
● Patterns relating to Behavior and motivation,
cognitive inputs
The ventral stream or pathway involves progressive Putamen
processing steps in the inferior occipito-temporal cortex.
• Processes the motor component
May mga fisiform and lingual gyri jan which are involve
IV. BASAL GANGLIA CIRCUITS
in the color and shape of the object.
A. The Cortico-Striato-Pallido-Thalamic Pathway
Huntington’s Chorea
→ Lesion: Corpus Striatum
(Caudate Nucleus) and Cerebral
Cortex
Predominantly autosomal dominant
inherited chronic fetal disease
(Chromosome 4)
→ Insidious Onset (40-50)
→ Truncal involvement
→ Associated with emotional
disturbances
Dystonia
→ Lesion: Striatopallidal
Complex or Thalamus,
or a combination of
these
→ Slow, long-sustained,
contorting, involuntary
movements and
postures
→ Involving proximal appendicular and axial muscles
Figure 3