PSYC*2410 - Chapter 3 (FILL IN THE BLANKS)

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The _______ stain colours entirely black a few neurons in each brain slice

Golgi

The almond shaped nucleus of the anterior temporal lobe is the ______

amygdala

Pyramidal cells have _____ dendrites

apical

Large, star-shaped glial cells are ______

astrocytes

At the junction of the cell body and axon of a multipolar neuron is the _______

axon hillock

The putamen and _____ compose the striatum

caudate

The brain and spinal cord comprise the ______ system

central nervous

The cerebral hemispheres are joined by tracts called cerebral ______

commissures

Sensory signals enter the spinal cord via the ____ roots

dorsal

The three-layered cortical structure of the medial temporal lobe is the _____

hippocampus

The temporal lobe is separated from the frontal lobe by the ____ fissure

lateral

________ means "ring"

limbic

the arachnoid membrane is one of the _______

meninges

It is ________ that gives white matter in the nervous system its glossy white sheen.

myelin

The ______ dangles from the hypothalamus

pituitary

The bulge on the ventral surface of the metencephalon is the ______

pons

The large, two-lobed structure that sits atop the brain stem is the ______

thalamus

Bundles of axons in the CNS are called

tracts

The opposite of dorsal is _______

ventral

Cerebrospinal fluid fills the four _____ of the brain

ventricles


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