What three main processes help to transfer short term memories to long-term memories?
What three connective tissue membranes form the meninges?
These meninges surround or encase both the __________________ and the ______________ ______________.
What "space" separates the arachnoid mater and the pia mater? What flows through this space?
What is meningitis?
The spinal cord (SC) extends to about ____ vertebrae and ends in the ________ ________.
What are two major functions of the SC?
There are two enlargements in the spinal cord. What are they? Why are these regions larger than others?
How many pairs of spinal nerves are there?
What is the cauda equina?
Where would you draw (sample) CSF from? Why? What is this process termed?
What is the filum terminale? Where is it?
Ascending pathways up the spinal chord are associated with ________________ neural transmission (several words would work).
Where are the cell bodies located in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd order neurons in the ascending pathways: Dorsal column and spinothalamic?
What does decussation mean?
Generally, how many neurons are in a descending pathway?
What are the funiculi?
As a general rule, ___________ roots carry ______________, and ___________roots carry ___________ impulses.
It is easy to understand whether a tract is ascending or descending from its name, Corticospinal, reticulospinal, rubrospinal, vestibulospinal and tectospinal are all ____________ tracts, and spinocerebellar and spinothalamic are __________ tracts. .
Can you envision and describe epi-, peri-, and endoneuriums. Which of these is most intimate with myelin of an axon?
What kind of neurons are the first order neurons in the ascending system (functionally and anatomically)?
Spinal nerves carry _____________ signals, as do the rami. This is different from the dorsal and ventral roots that "feed" them.
Describe several characteristics of a somatic reflex.
What is the purpose of muscle spindles? Where are they?
Differentiate gamma and alpha motoneurons.
Where are the contractile filaments on a spindle fiber?
Where are the Golgi tendon organs?
Review 6 steps per the diagram describing the flexor withdrawal and the crossed extensor reflex.
Review the 8 steps which are described in the diagram of the patellar tendon reflex.