Neuroanatomy Summary

❌🧇 Notes: NEUROANATOMY NUCLEI SUMMARY Don’t know your aunts from your peduncles? Your feta from your olives?  This page is for you.Best viewed on big screens Waffle Warning ! You may not need to know all the locations or exact 3D structure of every one of the nuclei here, some diagrams are just to help […]

NSB Neuroanat Notes: Brainstem

❌🧇 Notes: nsb neuroanatomy brainstem Similar resources: Y2, Y2Notes, Y2 NSB, Y2NeuroAnat neuroanatomy Patrick anderson Somatosensory Systems: (ascending tracts)• anterior spinal artery supplies the ventral grey horns, lateral corticospinal tracto if the anterior spinal artery is blocked (spinal stroke), the greatdescending motor tracts and main ascending pain pathways will all die• posterior intercostal arteries → […]

NSB Neuroanat Notes: Brain & Spinal Cord

❌🧇 Notes: nsb neuroanatomy brain & spinal cord Similar resources: Y2, Y2Notes, Y2 NSB, Y2NeuroAnat neuroanatomy Patrick anderson Neuroanatomy: Forebrain 3Thalamus:• all input sensory information (except olfaction) goes to the thalamus, whichorganises it to what is important and what can be ignored• Thalamic Nuclei:o Anterior nucleus- connected to the hippocampus and is related tomemoryo Dorsomedial […]

NSB Neuroanat Notes: Forebrain 3

❌🧇 Notes: nsb neuroanat forebrain 3 Similar resources: Y2, Y2Notes, Y2 NSB, Y2NeuroAnat neuroanatomy Patrick anderson • Alzheimer’s Disease-o shrinkage of the forebrain, expansion of the sulci and ventricles as brain tissue is lost (due to amyloid changing tau protein, which spreads like avirus)o cholinergic input increases cortical activity of the cerebral cortex▪ Nucleus basalis […]

NSB Neuroanat Notes: Forebrain 2

❌🧇 Notes: nsb neuroanat forebrain 2 Similar resources: Y2, Y2Notes, Y2 NSB, Y2NeuroAnat neuroanatomy Patrick anderson • Alzheimer’s Disease-o shrinkage of the forebrain, expansion of the sulci and ventricles as brain tissue is lost (due to amyloid changing tau protein, which spreads like avirus)o cholinergic input increases cortical activity of the cerebral cortex▪ Nucleus basalis […]

NSB Neuroanat Notes: Forebrain 1

❌🧇 Notes: nsb neuroanat forebrain 1 Similar resources: Y2, Y2Notes, Y2 NSB, Y2NeuroAnat neuroanatomy Patrick anderson Cerebral Hemispheres: • Lobes-o frontal o parietalo temporalo occipitalo insular cortex (inside, betweentemporal and frontal lobes) • Sulci-o longitudinal fissure (separates hemispheres) o central sulcus (separates frontal and parietal lobes)o sylvian fissure/ lateral fissure (separates frontal and temporal lobes)o […]

NSB Neuroanat Notes: Introduction

❌🧇 Notes: nsb neuroanat intro Similar resources: Y2, Y2Notes, Y2 NSB, Y2NeuroAnat neuroanatomy Patrick anderson Neuroanatomy: Brain and Spinal Cord• Olfactory Nerve (I)- the olfactory epithelium contains olfactory sensoryneurones whose axons form many olfactory nerves. Olfactory nerves end in theolfactory bulbs of the brain.• Optic nerve (II)- axons arise from neurones in the retina and […]

NSB Neuroscience Notes: Pain

❌🧇 Notes: nsb pain Similar resources: Y2, Y2Notes, Y2 NSB, Neuro Notes, Neuroscience, Christopher Yeo, Chris Yeo,   NSBNeuro ,  • Pain: an unpleasant emotional and sensory experience associated with or resemblingthat associated with actual or potential tissue damage• Nociception: the neural process of encoding and processing noxious stimuli• pain is highly individual and subjective• pain […]

NSB Neuroscience Notes: Sensory Transduction & Receptors

❌🧇 Notes: nsb somatosensory system 1 – transduction & receptors Similar resources: Y2, Y2Notes, Y2 NSB, Neuro Notes, Neuroscience, Christopher Yeo, Chris Yeo,   NSBNeuro ,  N&B Neuroscience: SomatosensorySystem 1 – Sensory Transduction andReceptors• all somatosensory input arrives via axons of sensory neurones of dorsal rootganglion (sensory neurones surrounded by satellite cells)Skin Receptors: o Superficial: (GerMan’s)▪ […]

NSB Neuroscience Notes: Disorders of Movement

❌🧇 Notes: nsb disorders of movement Similar resources: Y2, Y2Notes, Y2 NSB, Neuro Notes, Neuroscience, Christopher Yeo, Chris Yeo,   NSBNeuro , NSBMovement N&B Neuroscience: Motor Control 4 –Disorders of Movement• Spasticity- resistance to movement unidirectional (velocity dependent)• Rigidity- resistance to movement bidirectional (not velocity dependent)• Ataxia- loss of co-ordination in the action of muscles• Akinesia- […]