Questions for the 1st practical assessment

1. What is the anatomical/histological substrate of the enlargements of the spinal

cord?
2. At which vertebral level is the medullary cone located in adults?
3. What sort of nerve fibers travel in the anterior root?
4. What sort of nerve fibers travel in the posterior root?
5. Which cisterns are used for CSF withdrawal?
6. What are the names of (both potential and real) spaces between the layers of
the spinal meninges?
7. Which pathways travel in the anterior funiculus?
8. Which pathways travel in the lateral funiculus?
9. Which pathways travel in the posterior funiculus?
10. What are Rexed laminae (spinal laminae of Rexed)?
11. How many Rexed laminae are found in the gray matter of spinal cord?
12. Where does the 1st cervical nerve exit from the vertebral column?
13. Where does the 8th cervical nerve exit from the vertebral column?
14. What make up the cauda equina?
15. Which cranial nerves exit from the retro-olivary groove?
16. Which cranial nerve exits from the pre-olivary groove?
17. Which cranial nerves exit from the pontocerebellar angle?
18. Where does the oculomotor nerve exit from the brainstem?
19. Where does the trochlear nerve exit from the brainstem?
20. Where does the trigeminal nerve exit from the brainstem?
21. Where does the abducent nerve exit from the brainstem?
22. Where does the hypoglossal nerve exit from the brainstem?
23. What is the name of the floor of 4th ventricle?
24. What are the names of the outlets of 4th ventricle?
25. What is the name of the channel which connects the 3rd and 4th ventricles?
26. Name the vital centers of reticular formation.
27. What is the function of the ventral posteromedial nucleus?
28. What is the function of the ventral posterolateral nucleus?
29. What is the function of the ventral anterior and ventral lateral nuclei?
30. What is the function of the anterior thalamic nuclei?
31. Which thalamic nucleus belongs to the limbic system?
32. Name at least three functions of the hypothalamus.
33. What does the arcuate (infundibular) nucleus produce?
34. What do the paraventricular and supra-optic nuclei produce?
35. Which hormone does the pineal gland produce?
36. What is the interpretation of the association fibers?
37. What is the interpretation of the commissural fibers?
38. Which pathways travel in the anterior limb of internal capsule?
39. Which pathways travel in the genu of internal capsule?
40. In which part of the internal capsule does the optic radiation run?
41. In which part of the internal capsule does the acoustic radiation run?
42. In which part of the internal capsule do the corticospinal fibers?
43. Which branch of the internal carotid artery supplies the internal capsule?
44. In which gyrus is the primary somatomotor area located?
45. In which gyrus is the primary somatosensory area located?
46. In which gyrus is the primary auditory area located?
47. In which gyrus is the primary visual area located?
48. In which gyrus is the Broca's motor speech area located?
49. In which gyrus is the Wernicke's sensory speech area located?
50. In which gyrus is the Brodmann areas 3, 1, 2 located?
51. In which gyrus is the Brodmann area 4 located?
52. In which gyrus is the Brodmann area 6 located?
53. In which gyrus is the Brodmann area 8 located?
54. What is the major function of the Brodmann area 17?
55. What is the major function of the Brodmann area 22?
56. What is the major function of the Brodmann area 41?
57. What is the major function of the Brodmann areas 44, 45?
58. What make up the striatum?
59. Name the cerebellar nuclei.
60. Name the lobes of the cerebellum.
61. Name some functions of the cerebellum.
62. Which artery gives rise to the vertebral artery?
63. Which direct branch of the internal carotid artery supplies the largest part of
the superolateral surface of cerebral cortex?
64. Which direct branch of the internal carotid artery supplies the largest part of
medial surface of cerebral cortex?
65. Name three areas of the brain which are devoid of blood-brain barrier.
66. What are the names of (both potential and real) spaces between the layers of
the cranial meninges?
67. Which diencephalic structures are parts of the Papez circuit?
68. What are the functions of the limbic system?
69. What brain areas are connected by the fornix?
70. What are choroid plexuses? What are their function?
71. What are the layers of the meninges?
72. Where does the absorption of CSF take place? Which anatomical structures
are involved in this process?
73. What is the interpretation of the allocortex?
74. What is the interpretation of the isocortex?
75. Which artery passes through the cavernosus sinus?
76. What brain areas does basilar artery supply?
77. Name three association fiber systems of the telencephalon.
78. Which mesencephalic area contains the highest density of dopaminergic
neurons?
79. What is the function of the area postrema?
80. Which anatomical/physiological system includes the Papez circuit?
81. Name three commissural fiber systems of the telencephalon.