Introduction to
Neuroanatomy II:
Functional Anatomy
| Regional neuroanatomy: spatial relations between brain structures within a portion of the nervous system | |
| Functional neuroanatomy: those parts of the nervous system that work together to accomplish a particular task, for example, visual perception |
| Functional localization of neural systems | |
| Functional organization of the thalamo-cortical systems | |
| Cortical circuitry | |
| Topics cut across all lectures | |
| •add to preparation for lab | |
| •basis for better understanding of lectures on neural systems | |
| Functional localization of touch pathway in brain stem | ||
| To understand hierarchical organization of a neural system | ||
| To begin to become familiar with internal brain structure | ||
| Organization of visual pathway | ||
| Segue into… | ||
| Functional organization of the thalamo-cortical systems | ||
| Cortical circuitry | ||
Dorsal column-medial lemniscal system for touch
| Sensory receptor neurons | |
| Dorsal column of spinal cord | |
| Medial lemniscus in brain stem | |
| Thalamus | |
| Cortex |
Functional localization in the Thalamo-cortical systems
| Principle of functional localization |