Brain and Neuroanatomy — Flashcards

Boundaries of the 3rd ventricle:Roof - _____Lateral wall - Thalamus, hypothalamusAnterior wall - Anterior commissure, Lamina terminalisPosterior wall - Pineal gland, Posterior commissure, Aqueduct of SylviusFloor - Optic chiasma, Infundibulum, mamillary bodies, posterior perforating substance, tegmentum of midbrain (anterior to posterior)

_____ motoneurons are always ipsi-lateral to the muscle they innervate

The arrangement of cerebellar nuclei from _____ is dentate, emboliform, globose, and fastigial.

The corticobulbar innervation of facial motoneurons to muscles of the _____ face is bi-lateral

What are the adult derivatives of the wall of the metencephalon? _____ and cerebellum

_____ fibers that enter the cerebellum originate from the inferior olivary nuclei of the contralateral medulla

The 1st-order neuron of the hypothalamospinal tract arises from the hypothalamus and synapses in the _____ horn of the spinal cord at the level of T1

The dentate nucleus sends axons that decussate in the _____ and then synapse in the contralateral ventral lateral (VL) nucleus of the thalamus

The _____ nucleus is the portion of the medial longitudinal fasciculus responsible for vertical gaze

The afferent pathways of basal ganglia consist of _____ and thalamostriatal pathways