CLASS DISCUSSION

Week 2: Chapter
2
Revision Questions
■ Can you name and explain all 10 directional terms?
– Bonus: Can you name the 3 planes?
■ How many parts is the human nervous system divided into? What are
they?
■ What are the meninges? Can you name them?
■ What is CSF?
– What is its function?
■ Can you explain the flow of CSF?
■ Explain the process of a two-neuron reflex.
■ Name the 4 major divisions of the brain.
■ What structures make up the brain stem?
■ What is the aRAS?
– Important functions?
■ What is of significance about the cranial nerves?
■ What is the main function of the cerebellum?
■ What is the difference between an intention tremor and a resting tremor?
■ Damage to the thalamus causes chorea or dystonia. Define these terms.
■ What syndrome is associated with thalamic lesions?
■ Name 2 important functions of the hypothalamus.
■ What structures make up the basal ganglia?
■ What important system uses many structures of the basal ganglia?
– What other structures does this system use?
■ What is grey matter comprised of?
– What color is it?
■ What is white matter comprised of?
■ Define gyri and sulci.
■ What are the 4 lobes of the cerebral cortex?
■ What is the fissure that separates the two hemispheres?
■ Explain the relationship between localisation and each layer of cerebral
evolution.
■ Define contralateral.
■ What is neuroplasticity?
■ Name the three cortices and what they deal with.