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Gross Neuroanatomy
CNS vs PNS
Neuroanatomy CNS Nuclei (gray matter) vs. nerve tracts (white matter) Brain, functional areas Spinal cord Blood-brain barrier Ventricular system Blood supply PNS Cranial, cervical to sacral nerves, autonomic nerves muscles
Methods Lesion studies Special stains (Golgi, Nissel) and histology Tract tracing Surface-, Intracortical microstimulation PET, (f)MRI, EEG, MEG, TMS
Phineas Gage--1848
Neurons are signaling elements Late nineteenth century: Golgi and Ramon y Cajal
Mapping brain regions Wilder Penfield, 1940’s Electrical stimulation of exposed human cortex during surgery
Methods for functional studies
Limbic lobe
Cranial nerves
Diencephalon and brainstem
C-shaped structures
Somatotopic mapping of human sensory and motor cortices
CNS subdivision
Brain: gray and white matter
Diencephalon Thalamus major sensory center and motor output Corpus callosum links 2 hemispheres Hypothalamus major center for homeostasis
Thalamus All senses, except olfaction, are routed through it to cortex
Limbic system emotion, memory, and learning
Brainstem midbrain, pons, medulla
Brainstem Tectum: Superior colliculus: part of vision Inferior colliculus: part of audition Periaqueductal gray area Tegmentum: Reticular Formation: sleep, arousal, muscle tone contain norepinephrine nuclei Substantia Nigra: motor system (Parkinson’s dis) contain major dopamine nuclei Periaqueductal gray area: contain Substance P nuclei sensitive to opiates
Spinal cord
Blood-brain barrier endothelial cells (tight junctions in-between), pericytes, and astrocytes (end-foot processes)
Motor corticospinal rubrospinal reticulospinal tracts
Motor multiple descending tracts from brainstem
Spinal Cord spinal reflex; central pattern generators at C-, L-enlargement
Motor the motor unit
Motor extrapyramidal system (basal ganglion)
Functions of Basal ganglion: other than motor control
Sensory Dermatomes
Somatosensory spinothalamic tract
Somatosensory proprioception dorsal column pathway
Somatosensory pain modulatory pathways
Autonomic
Autonomic Hypothalamic nucleus