Summary neuropsychologie

A snapshot of the summary - neuropsychologie

• Chapter 3: Nervous System Organization

• 4 ways to protect the brain and spinal cord

  1. Skully bone 
     
  2. Meninges
  3. CSF
  4. BBB
• Blood supply MCA

  Lateral surface. 70% of the strokes due to rupture MCA
• Blood supply PCA

  Ventral en posterior surfaces. Strokes leads to blindness.
• Where consist the hindbrain of?

  • Pons
    
  • Reticular formation
  • Medulla 
  • Cerebellum
• Function pons nuclei

  Bridge inputs from cerebellum to the rest of the brain
• Function medulla's nuclei

  Vital functions such as breathing and cardiovascular system
• Where consist the tegmentum of?

  Nuclei of the cranial nerves: red nucleus, substania nigra en PAG
• Function medial geniculate body (thalamus)

  Receives auditory info and sends it to the cortex
• Function ventrolateral posterior nuclei (thalamus)

  Receives somatosensation (touch, pressure, pain and temperature) and sends it to the cortex.
• Where consist the forebrain of?

  Basal ganglia, limbic system and cerebral cortex