Neuroanatomy — Flashcards

Flashcard 561: Which Brodmann area corresponds to the **premotor cortex**?

Answer: Brodmann area 6 (Premotor cortex)

Extra: Brodmann area 6 is located anterior to the primary motor cortex (Area 4). It includes the premotor cortex and the supplementary motor area (SMA), and it is responsible for planning and sequencing complex movements.

Flashcard 562: The _____ horn of gray matter contains motor neurons

Answer: ventral

Flashcard 563: The cell bodies of the cuneocerebellar tract are found in the medulla in the _____ nucleus

Answer: external cuneate

Flashcard 564: _____ tracts serve as a source of UMN innervation of LMNs in cranial nerve nuclei

Answer: Corticobulbar

Flashcard 565: The hypothalamus and anterior pituitary are linked directly by the _____ system

Answer: hypothalamic-hypophysial portal

Flashcard 566: _____ is due to failure of the left and right hemispheres to separate

Answer: Holoprosencephaly

Flashcard 567: What is the destination of the ventral posteromedial (VPM) nucleus of the thalamus?_____

Answer: Primary somatosensory cortex

Flashcard 568: The _____ lobe of the cerebellum consists of the nodulus (in the vermis) and the flocculi (in the lateral hemispheres).

Answer: flocculonodular

Flashcard 569: The 3rd-order neuron of the spinothalamic tract travels to the _____

Answer: primary somatosensory cortex (postcentral gyrus)

Flashcard 570: What artery supplies the lateral medulla? _____

Answer: Posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA)