Embryonic brain vessels

Name the three primary (embryonic) brain vessels and use clinical terminology to name the resulting adult brain regions.

Cerebrum: grooves/hemispheres/lobes

(a) What is the advantage of having a cerebrum that is highly convoluted? (b) What term is used to indicate its grooves? Its outward folds? (c) What groove divides the cerebrum into two hemispheres? (d) What divides the parietal from the frontal lobe? The parietal from the temporal lobe?

Brain hemisphere functions

(a) Name the hemisphere involved with most people’s ability to draw. (b) Provide the major function of each: primary motor cortex, premotor cortex, somatosensory association area, primary sensory area, visual and auditory areas, prefrontal cortex, Wernicke’s and Broca’s areas

Basal nuclei

(a) What is the function of the basal nuclei? (b) Which basal nuclei form the lentiform nucleus? (c) Which arches over the diencephalon?

Tissue layers from skin to brain

A brain surgeon is about to make an incision. Name all the tissue layers that she cuts through from the skin to the brain.