Sagittal Sections 2

  1. What are these?
    Descending Corticospinal and Corticobulbar tracts- nerve fibres that deal with motor function
  2. What is this?
    Dentate Nucleus- Links the cerebellum with the rest of the brain, and has a serrated, tooth-like edge
  3. What is this?

    Caudate Nucleus- involved with motor processes, but also growing evidence for it being involved in sensory and cognitive processes- Middleton & Strick (2000)
  4. What is this?

    Choroid Plexus- produces cerebrospinal fluid
  5. What is this?

    Fornix- carries signals from the hippocampus to the mammillary bodies (that handle the limbic system)
  6. What is this?

    Amygdala- handles memory, decision making, and emotional reactions
  7. What is this?
    Lateral Geniculate Nucleus
  8. What is this?
    Globus Pallidus- part of the extrapyramidal motor system, that causes involuntary movements
  9. What is this?
    Putamen- part of the basal ganglia, regulates movement and influences reinforcement and implicit learning
  10. What is this?
    Corona Radiata- white matter sheet that carries most of the info to and from the cerebral cortex
  11. What is this?
    Anterior Commisure-  bundle of white matter nerve fibres that connect the two hemispheres of the temporal lobe
  12. What is this?
    Hippocampus- limbic system, STM and navigation
  13. What is this?

    Lateral Geniculate Nucleus- deals with vision, and is where the optic nerve (that becomes the optic tract) terminates
  14. What is this?
    Choroid Plexus of the lateral ventricle (produces cerebrospinal fluid)
  15. Pulvinar nuclei - important in speech, vision and motor production
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Sagittal Sections 2
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