Basic Human Neuroanatomy Answered Exam Questions 2023.

Basic Human Neuroanatomy Answered Exam
Questions 2023.

What are the divisions of the nervous system? - Answer -central nervous system
(CNS)
- peripheral nervous system (PNS)


What is in the central nervous system? - Answer consists of the brain and spinal
cord


What is in the peripheral nervous system? - Answer consists of the somatic
nervous system (SNS) and the autonomic nervous system (ANS)


What is the somatic nervous system? - Answer sensorimotor connections via
spinal and cranial nerves


What is the autonomic nervous system? - Answer balance the internal organs
through the parasympathetic and sympathetic nerves


Anatomical terms of location - Answer - rostral (nose)
- caudal (tail)
- dorsal (back)
- ventral (belly)
- coronal (XY plane)
- axial (aka 'transverse or horizontal') (XZ plane)
- nucleus (cluster of cell bodies in the CNS)
- anterior or frontal

, Basic Human Neuroanatomy Answered Exam
Questions 2023.

- posterior (behind)
- lateral (side)
- medial (midline)
- superior/inferior
- sagittal (aka 'lateral' (YZ plane)
- ganglion (cluster of cell bodies in the PNS)


What are the four regions of the spine? - Answer - cervical
- thoracic
- lumbar
- sacral


What are the planes of section? - Answer - coronal section (frontal view)
- horizontal section (dorsal view)
- sagittal section (medial view)


What is ipsilateral? - Answer on the same side


What is contralateral? - Answer on the opposite side


What is bilateral? - Answer lie in both hemispheres


What is proximal? - Answer are close together