NEURO - CEREBROVASCULAR SYSTEM
STUDY GUIDE WITH QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS [GRADED A+]
ICA, vertebral - ✔✔anterior, posterior circulation to cerebral hemispheres
ICA, ACA, Acomm, Pcomm, PCA - ✔✔makes up Circle of Willis
opthalmic, Pcomm, anterior choroidal, ACA, MCA - ✔✔branches from
cerebral part of ICA
recurrent artery of Heubner - ✔✔medial straite br of Acomm (from ACA)
Acomm, pericallosal, callosomarginal - ✔✔branches of ACA
©morren2025/2026.Year published 2026.
, contralateral leg and pelvis, mental confusion, dysphasia, impaired
judgement - ✔✔deficits if ACA occlusion
MCA - ✔✔largest terminal branch of ICA
MCA - ✔✔what artery loops around and over the insula and operculum
lenticulostriate br MCA - ✔✔what supplies the basal ganglia and internal
capsule
MCA - ✔✔artery that supplies primary motor, premotor, primary
somatosensory cortex, and language areas
MCA - ✔✔occlusion of this artery causes contralateral paralysis lower
face/arm, global aphasia, hemineglect, upper motor neuron weakness
anterior spinal, posterior spinal, PICA - ✔✔branches of vertebral artery
cisterna magna - ✔✔what cistern PICA is located in
©morren2025/2026.Year published 2026.
STUDY GUIDE WITH QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS [GRADED A+]
ICA, vertebral - ✔✔anterior, posterior circulation to cerebral hemispheres
ICA, ACA, Acomm, Pcomm, PCA - ✔✔makes up Circle of Willis
opthalmic, Pcomm, anterior choroidal, ACA, MCA - ✔✔branches from
cerebral part of ICA
recurrent artery of Heubner - ✔✔medial straite br of Acomm (from ACA)
Acomm, pericallosal, callosomarginal - ✔✔branches of ACA
©morren2025/2026.Year published 2026.
, contralateral leg and pelvis, mental confusion, dysphasia, impaired
judgement - ✔✔deficits if ACA occlusion
MCA - ✔✔largest terminal branch of ICA
MCA - ✔✔what artery loops around and over the insula and operculum
lenticulostriate br MCA - ✔✔what supplies the basal ganglia and internal
capsule
MCA - ✔✔artery that supplies primary motor, premotor, primary
somatosensory cortex, and language areas
MCA - ✔✔occlusion of this artery causes contralateral paralysis lower
face/arm, global aphasia, hemineglect, upper motor neuron weakness
anterior spinal, posterior spinal, PICA - ✔✔branches of vertebral artery
cisterna magna - ✔✔what cistern PICA is located in
©morren2025/2026.Year published 2026.
