The Nervous System
Students should satisfy the following
objectives
1. Using both preserved human brains and the plastic brain models,
identify the following on the outer surface of the cerebral cortex:
- Frontal lobe
- Parietal lobe
- Occipital lobe
- Temporal lobe
- Cerebellum
- Lateral fissure
- Central sulcus
- Longitudinal fissure (plastic model)
2. On the mid-sagittal surface of the preserved human brains and models,
identify the following:
- Corpus callosum
- Thalamus
- Hypothalamus
- Pons
- Medulla
- Spinal cord
- Cerebellum
- Lateral ventricle
- Third ventricle
- Cerebral aqueduct
- Fourth ventricle
- Choroid plexus
- Pituitary gland
- Infundibulum
- Fornix
- Optic nerve
- Mammillary bodies
- Olfactory tracts
3. On the frontal brain sections embedded in plastic identify the
following:
- Lateral ventricles
- Third ventricle
- Thalamus
- Cerebral cortex
- Cerebral white matter
- Corpus callosum
- Longitudinal fissure
4. Identify the following on the cadaver:
5. Identify the following on the microscope slide of the spinal cord (use
scanning power objective):
- White matter
- Gray matter
- Anterior median fissure
- Posterior median sulcus
- Central canal