[NEUR 2200] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (57 pages long!)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Neuroscience
• Course: NEUR 2200
• Professor: Zachary Patterson

Document Summary

White matter, connecting neurons (gray matter would be the cell body) Many axons project together forming a nerve or tract (nerve inside, tract outside) Automatic movements, hard for brain to inhibit. Receives afferent (towards the brain) nerves from all the body"s senses. Sends efferent (away from brain) nerves to the spinal cord. Midbrain [wrist region, thin not a lot of real estate ] Diencephalon (aka between breen) [kind of like forearm] Easily stimulated keeps you awake, not easily stimulated you fall asleep easily. Netlike mixture of gray and white matter. Bridge that connects cerebellum to the rest of the brain. Damage to the medulla is especially fatal. The brainstem - midbrain- where the pleasure happens. Receives sensory info from eyes and ears. Someone walks in the door- you receive that info and produce an oriented movement to turn your body to see the door. Substantia nigra- initiates movement, controls voluntary movement.