PNB 2XB3 Neuroscience Midterm Review All Possible Questions and Answers with complete solution

Frontal Lobe - ️️front of the brain; reasoning, motor skills, higher level cognition, and expressive language; at the back of the frontal lobe, near the central sulcus, lies the motor cortex(receives information from various lobes of the brain and utilizes this information to carry out body movements); damage:changes in sexual habits, socialization, and attention, increased risk-taking Spinal nerve - ️️A nerve which carries motor, sensory and autonomic information between the spinal cord and body Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) - ️️all parts not within bone (spinal nerves, cranial nerves) Cranial nerve - ️️One of twelve pairs of nerves arising from the brainstem that carry sensory information towards the central nervous system Dermatome - ️️An area of the skin that is innervated by a single spinal nerve Central Nervous System (CNS) - ️️all parts of the nervous system within bone (spinal cord, brainstem, thalamus, cortex, etc) Width of synaptic cleft - ️️... Conduction velocity of different axon types - ️️... Size of neuron cell body - ️️... Efferent - ️️projecting away from reference Afferent - ️️projecting toward reference Saggital - ️️The plane that passes from ventral to dorsal, dividing the body into left and right halves Coronal - ️️...Horizontal - ️️... Ipsilateral - ️️same side Contralateral - ️️opposide side Decussate - ️️cross midline Dorsal - ️️... Ventral - ️️... Rostral - ️️... Caudal - ️️... 4 Neuroscience Rules - ️️1. Symmetry 2. Localization of function] 3. Contralaterality 4.