Category: Neuroanatomy
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Lab 6: Sensory Systems
Lab Summary This laboratory session will focus on the visual, auditory, somatosensory and gustatory pathways. Now that many of the structures of these pathways are somewhat familiar from other laboratories, focus your attention on their functional roles and on diagnostic differences for lesions at different points along the pathways. SECTION 1: Visual System SECTION 2:…
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Lab 5: Motor Systems
Lab Summary The purpose of this laboratory is to familiarize you with the nuclei and tracts that have a role in the execution and direction of movements. SECTION 1: Basal Ganglia SECTION 2: Cerebellum SECTION 3: Nuclei & Tracts of Descending Systems SECTION 4: Review Basal Ganglia Objectives The purpose of this laboratory is to familiarize you with the…
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Lab 2: Spinal Cord
Lab Summary The purpose of this laboratory is to learn the gross and microscopic organization of the spinal cord and its functional components. Besides the study of the normal cord, there will be lesioned material from humans and animals that will be used to demonstrate certain neural tracts that have degenerated. You will also have…
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Lab 1: Topography of the Brain
Lab Summary The purpose of this first lab is to begin developing your vocabulary for neural structures and your capacity to understand the 3-dimensional organization of the brain. This is a necessary step before learning the details of structure and function that will be presented in subsequent lectures and labs. In particular, this lab focuses…