All right Ningeners, so we've already covered the brain in another video. Our intention in this video is to just be able to give you guys another view of the brain and some of the internal structures. So let's go ahead and dive right into this.
So first off if you remember from before we had this central sulcus here on the side. And it's just this little like you know this little groove right here. We're running right there. This guy right there is actually called the central sulcus. So again the central sulcus is this little like groove right here running all the way up right there.
And what's the purpose of it? The central sulcus separates the front frontal lobe from the parietal lobe. So if I come up the central sulcus one more time, if I go right in front of this sulcus to this gyrus right there, because remember, a sulcus is like this little divot, and then a gyrus is this big, fat, lumpy thing right there, right?
This gyrus in front of the central sulcus is called the precentral gyrus. It's also where the primary motor cortex is. And if I follow the central sulcus back up again, and I go to this fat gyrus that's right behind it, that guy right there is called the postcentral gyrus.
And that's the primary somatosensory cortex is. And then if I were to go in front of the primary motor here, which is where the precentral gyrus is, I'd hit like the premotor and then you come in front of that and you hit what's called the prefrontal cortex and so on and so forth. There's even called the eyelids, stuff like that.
But again, basic important thing right here is central sulcus, precentral gyrus, postcentral gyrus. The precentral gyrus is functionally called the primary motor cortex. The postcentral gyrus is functionally called the primary somatosensory cortex. Okay, then if I were to continue to work my way back to see where else does the parietal lobe work, where does that terminate and where does it go to another lobe? So if I come over here I'm gonna take this brain and kind of like open it up here turn it around so if we look here you'll see another sulcus right there that sulcus right there is actually called the parietal occipital sulcus and the parietal occipital sulcus is what separates the parietal lobe from the occipital lobe.
So back here is the occipital lobe. I'll give you guys another view here in a second. Just let me repeat that one more time again. This is the parietal occipital sulcus and the parietal occipital sulcus is what separates the parietal lobe which begins right after the central sulcus all the way up to this sulcus and it separates the parietal lobe again from the occipital lobe.
Alright guys, so if we look back here we have the occipital lobe back there again and what separates the occipital lobe from the parietal lobe is the parietal occipital sulcus. sulcus. So this is the, again, this is the occipital lobe. In the occipital lobe, there's a specific cortex, it's actually called the primary visual cortex. And so that's where, you know, the actual signal transduction that comes from our retina that portrays, you know, basically light, we can actually have the perception of that light in this area to be able to perceive what we see, you know, certain types of objects and shapes and colors and so on and so forth.
So again, primary visual cortex is located within the occipital lobe. And then if I turn this to the right side, our lateral side over here, we can see another sulcus. And this sulcus is right here. So actually let me move this rubber band guys so we can see a little better. So if I move that rubber band right there and I move my finger right, or this little pointer here, right through this area, right through that sulcus, that sulcus right there is called the lateral sulcus.
Now the lateral sulcus is the sulcus that separates the temporal lobe, again from the parietal lobe and even a little bit from the frontal lobe. lobe, but this lateral sulcus runs right down here and it separates the temporal lobe from the parietal lobe and even a little bit from the frontal lobe. So again, what is this lobe right here then? Like I already said, this is the temporal lobe.
And the temporal lobe has a specific cortex in it which is called the primary auditory cortex. And the primary auditory cortex is going to be where we take specifically sound and hearing from the cochlea in our inner ear and we bring it to this area to be able to perceive and put together different types of memories to understand what we're talking about. hearing and be able to perceive that hearing right all right so that's where the primary auditory cortex is okay that's the temporal there is another lobe we can't see him he's gonna be deep to the temporal lobe and that's called the insula all right so let's go ahead and show you two more other areas that are kind of important here and what I'm gonna do is it's only on the left side of the frontal lobe it's called the Broca's area so the Broca's area is just gonna be this little area over here on the left side of the frontal lobe I'm gonna controls the muscles of speech production so being able to change the shape of our mouth and other types of muscles that are basically assisting within pronunciation and production of consonants and so on and so forth.
But again, it just controls the muscles of speech production. There's another area back here. It's kind of an overlapping area right around here. That's called the Wernicke's area. Basically, he just helps us to be able to understand what we're hearing and put those words together in a...
Appropriate manner that when we speak it, it makes sense. Okay, so he does help with being able to play a role also in speech production, but also understanding speech. All right, so that's the Wernicke's area. Now what I'm going to do is we're actually going to kind of take this guy here and turn it forward here so I can show you another structure. This whole thing up here is the cerebrum.
And the cerebrum is actually derived from what's called the telencephalon. Okay, that's its scientific name. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to kind of separate these two cerebral hemispheres right there.
And what happens is there's a fissure that runs right between these. these two, right between these two. And that's called the longitudinal fissure.
It's called the longitudinal fissure. Why I mention that is there's what's called dural sinuses that are veins that run through this area and we have to protect them. So there's these things called dural septa, which are just little septal partitions of dura matter that dip down into this longitudinal fissure and protect the dural sinuses. And that dural septa that comes in here in the longitudinal fissure is called the Falk's.
F-A-L-X, cerebri. So Falk's cerebri. And again, it's right here in the longitudinal fissure.
Alright, now I'm going to go ahead and turn this guy around so we can tell you guys about another one. So I'm going to come back here, back where the occipital lobe was. And if you remember this was the occipital lobe right?
Well how do we know, we know where the parietal lobe ends. You remember it starts at the central sulcus and then it ends at the parietal occipital sulcus. And that's where the occipital lobe begins at the parietal occipital sulcus.
Where does it end? It ends right back here where there's this little space in here right between the occipital lobe and this cerebellum right there. So in between here is what's called the transverse fissure. And the transverse fissure is important because there's another dural septa that actually dips in in that area and that right there is called the tentorium cerebelli. Cerebelli, okay, tentorium cerebelli and it's just a dural matter partition or septa that dips in that area.
Okay. Now what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead deeper into the structures of the cerebrum and take a look at that. Okay? Alright guys, so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to show some other structures underneath the cerebrum.
So, deep in the cerebrum, I just want to show you guys, if you see all this white right here, this is all white matter. And what white matter is, is it's just myelinated axons. So it's myelinated axons.
And myelinated axons just means it has this thing called myelin, which is made up of fat and proteins. It helps with basically nerve conduction, the speed of nerve conduction. But anyway, myelinated axons right here is going to be the white matter. All this pink stuff around the edges are the outsides of it. This is all part of what's called our cerebral cortex, and that's made of gray matter.
And gray matter is actually unmyelinated cell bodies, so there's no myelin around the cell bodies. So unmyelinated cell bodies is our gray matter. which makes up the cerebral cortex.
And you can think of that like as the thinking tissue. So that's the part where they're the biomechanical centers, and they basically, they're the ones that control a lot of the thinking or conscious thought. This white matter, you can think of that as like transmission tissue. It's basically responsible for being able to transmit impulses to and from certain areas.
Okay? So again, that shows you the cerebral cortex, and it shows the white matter right there. Now what we're going to do is we're going to take a look at some other structures, which is in the diencephalon and the ventricles.
Alright guys, so I have the left cerebral hemisphere right now. What I'm going to do is I'm going to take this top piece off so we can take a deeper look at some structures inside here. Alright, so if we take a look in here, right now we're kind of in the lateral ventricle.
And ventricles are just basically cavities within the actual brain and also within the brain stem. And it contains what's called cerebral spinal fluid. And we'll talk about that in more of the neurophysiology stuff.
But if you look right here, sitting in the bottom of the lateral ventricle down here, This is actually, if you remember from the other video, it's called the hippocampus. And the hippocampus is a limbic nuclei, so it plays a role with memory and emotions and so on and so forth. So it does play a very, very important role within basically memory. If you look here, that's 190. And if I come up here and I follow these white fibers, like 186, if I follow it all the way from here, all the way back, and then I come back up this way, so again, all the way up here, following this guy, and all the way back this way, These fibers are very important. They're called association fibers.
And association fibers are what allow for the movement of impulses to go from front, from the, you know, in front of the cerebrum to the back of the cerebrum or vice versa. Okay, so again, these are association fibers. And this is the hippocampus and then this whole cavity right here. So like, for example, this is the inferior horn.
This is the posterior horn. And then we'll see the anterior horn in a second. That's all the lateral ventricle. Okay, and again you can see the white matter and then you can see the gray matter out there.
So the last structure here is going to be number 206 and this is actually called the internal capsule and the internal capsule is actually specific fiber. It's called a projection. Fiber and projection fibers are important for being able to bring sensory information up to the cerebral cortex Okay, so they bring information up all right, but they do they can't allow for information to go down also So they just basically offer movement to go up and down so association is back and forth So back and front back and front and projection is up and down up and down and we'll look at another one in a second Called the commissural fibers all right now. We're going to go ahead and turn it around look at some other structures guys Alright, so I just turned it around guys, so again we're looking here at kind of like the other view.
I was on the back side, now we're looking over here on the front side. So if you look right here, there's a nuclei right here, it's a basal nuclei. And basal nuclei just are important for being able to dampen or smooth out certain motor movements.
He's one of them, he's called the cauda nucleus. So that's the cauda nucleus right there. But this whole, remember I told you there was another anterior horn of that lateral ventricle? So there's a little cavity here, and this whole cavity right here is the lateral ventricle.
And if you look right here, this structure right there is actually called the, it's a coriplexus, because there is a coriplexus, which is basically made up of appendimal cells and pia mater, and you're also going to have your capillaries in there, and it's what helps to be able to make the cerebrospinal fluid and circulate it. So again, this is going to be the lateral ventricle, this cavity here. Imagine like bathing this nucleus here.
Imagine bathing this caudate nucleus, and imagine this whole cavity filled with cerebrospinal fluid, and that's made by this thing called the coriplexus. And then you can see this fiber right there. There's another white matter fiber, and this is actually called the fornix. And the fornix is a white fiber that actually, it's a tract, which is a bundle of axons in the central nervous system, that connects multiple limbic nuclei together. So again, this structure right here, all the way from here, all the way from here, this is called the fornix.
And the fornix is basically what helps to be able to connect multiple limbic nuclei together. So again, last time, lateral ventricle, quadrinucleus. Chorioplexis of the lateral ventricle and the fornix. All right, so now we're going to go ahead and look at some of these other structures in the diencephalon. All right, guys, so this right here is the corpus callosum.
And the corpus callosum number 145 here, this is actually going to be made up of what's called commissural fibers. And commissural fibers are just, again, myelinated axons that allow for transmission of impulses from left cerebral hemisphere to right or from right cerebral hemisphere to left cerebral hemisphere. So it's very important for that connection.
It's also an area that's commonly damaged during concussions. And it's actually been found that women have more commissural fibers than men do, which allows for them to be able to be better at multitasking and stuff like that. And it also plays a role in epilepsy and stuff like that, but we're not going to get into that. So again, corpus callosum there.
If you look here, there's a membrane, 146. So this thin membrane here is called the septum pellucidum. And underneath the septum pellucidum is that lateral ventricle that I was showing you guys before. So underneath this septum pellucidum is the lateral ventricle. Okay.
So it's just a thin membrane that separates the two lateral ventricles. Because again, we have a lateral ventricle. one cerebral hemisphere, let's say the right one, and we'll also have a lateral ventricle in the left cerebral hemisphere.
And the structure separating them, this membrane, is the septum pellucidum. If you guys look at the ventricle model we have, you'll also see a better way of looking at that also. All right.
Let's come back here again. 148 here, this is the fornix. And again, that was that fiber track that connects a lot of the limbic nuclei together.
If I imagine I draw a whole circle, let's say I do a whole circle all the way around here. Or you imagine like an egg. An egg is kind of like oval shaped, right? So this whole thing right here is the thalamus.
So this whole egg structure here with a whole bunch of nuclei is the thalamus. And the thalamus is actually the relay station for a lot of sensory information going up into the cerebellum. because he has tons of nuclei that regulate that activity.
Then if you look there, that little brown structure right there, that's called the intermediate mass, and it basically is like an interthalamic adhesion between the two thalami because you'd have a thalamus in your right cerebral hemisphere and you'd have a thalamus in your left cerebral hemisphere, so you have two of them. If you actually imagine here, imagine this being an eye, like a bird's eye. So if you can imagine that, you can imagine the bird's eye, which is kind of like the white of the eye is like the thalamus, and then the pupil right there is where the...
the intermediate mass is. And if you imagine the bird's beak right there, this right there, that bird's beak is actually the hypothalamus. So they can kind of say, look at like a bird's eye and a bird's beak. And again, the bird's eye is made up of the thalamus and the intermediate mass and the bird's beak is the hypothalamus. If you look back here, you have what's called the pineal gland, which is a part of the epithalamus.
Then you're also going to notice this little, like the hypothalamus has this little stalk here on this side that connects to the pituitary gland that would sit right underneath the optic. chiasma actually this is if you look at 170 there that's one where the optic nerves cross there's actually called the optic Asthma so for example, this is the right cerebrum. So this would be the right optic nerve here And it's getting you ready to some of its fibers will cross over to the left side Okay, so that's kind of like the optic asthma there and then this part right there is the infundibulum Then if you look right there that little like a little ball there that right there is called the mammillary bodies And the mammillary bodies are also important because they play a role within certain types of olfactory pathways.
So they play a role in smell. That's the mammillary bodies, and they're limbic nuclei. So they play a role in recollective memory, stuff like that.
Okay. If you come over here, we're going to see some other structures. Because now we're getting ready to start moving into the brain stem.
So as we get ready to move over here, let's actually hit our brain stem. So if you look right here, all this part right here. This is all called the midbrain and they also call it the mesencephalon.
So it's derived from the mesencephalon. All this right here is our pons. This is all our pons.
And the pons and this right here is the cerebellum, they were actually derived from what's called the metencephalon. And then if we look here all the way over here this is the medulla oblongata and the medulla oblongata was derived from what's called the myelencephalon. So again I'll hit it one more time mesencephalon and then you got your metencephalon. which is made of the pons and the cerebellum.
And then you have your myelencephalon, which is the medulla oblongata. OK. Another thing here is I also mentioned it a little bit before.
I had mentioned that all this area right here is the diencephalon. The diencephalon is mainly made up of three things, which we said, thalamus, hypothalamus, and then technically the epithalamus, which consists of the pineal gland. There's this little cavity right here.
It also contains cerebral spinal fluid. And this is called the third ventricle. So the third ventricle would be a cavity right in this vicinity right here. So it actually gets drained from the lateral ventricle.
So here's our third ventricle. The third ventricle actually drains some of that actual fluid from the lateral ventricle. Then there's another little tube right here running right here through the midbrain.
So if you see that little tube right there, that's actually called the cerebral aqueduct. So the cerebral aqueduct drains the third ventricle, and the third ventricle drains the lateral ventricle via what's called the interventricular foramen. So again, third ventricle here, and then cerebral aqueduct here.
Then the cerebral aqueduct moves into what's called the fourth ventricle. And then from the fourth ventricle, the cerebrospinal fluid can go two ways. It can go down through the central canal of the ventricle, go through the central canal of the spinal cord, or it can go out through these two little holes.
called the foramen luschka and the foramen magendi. Or you can say foramen magendi is the median apertures and the foramen luschka is the lateral apertures. Okay?
So that's that part there. Okay? Now if we look here in the back of the midbrain, we see these two little, like, balls there.
All right? This top one right there is called the superior colliculi. And basically what he helps you to do is being able to move, it's like a reflexive movement of your head.
in response to some type of visual stimulus. For example, if I see Kate Upton walking by, my head is going to move with response to that visual stimulus. Mm-mm.
And then down here is the inferior colliculi. The inferior colliculi actually controls reflexive head movements in response to auditory stimulus. So, for example, if Kate Upton's boyfriend yelled at me, hey, what you doing looking at her?
My head would move that way too. So that's an example of that right there. Okay, so superior colliculi. Inferior colliculi there. Alright, so if I look here guys, there's another structure I want to show you It's 182 right there that structure right there is called the cerebral peduncles So it's like this stalk and again, these are projection fibers actually, so if you remember the cerebral peduncles These are projection fibers.
They're right around the midbrain and they carry sensory information up into the cerebrum Okay, so again, that's the cerebral peduncles right there. Alright guys, so if we look here I have 183 right there This is the pyramids. It's the pyramids of the medulla oblongata and That's where the descending motor fibers actually decussate or cross right there.
Okay, so the pyramids is due to the decussation or just crossing of the descending motor pathways. Alright guys, so we look over here on the side of the medulla oblongata, like on this side of it, it's all this pink gummy stuff. That's all the olives.
And the olives are actually broken up into two nuclei. You get your superior olivary nuclei and inferior olivary nuclei. And superior, basically, they play a role in basically the auditory pathways.
and the inferior olivary nuclei play a role with an appropriate reception and cerebellar motor function and learning and stuff like that okay so again olives play a role in appropriate reception and they play a role in basically in hearing also all right so that's your olives now we're going to do guys is we're going to basically go over the cerebellum now all right guys so if you look here you can see all of this like tree-like structure right there all this white like tree like looking thing all this white matter here is called the arbor vitae And the arbor vitae is just basically the white... matter of the cerebellum. Arborvitae actually stands for like the tree of life.
So again this all this white matter here is the arborvitae. And the outer gray matter on the actual edges where you'll find like your you know your Purkinje cells and certain stuff like that like all the outer side is the gray matter of the cerebellar cortex. And again that's just unmyelinated cell bodies. Again if you look here in the back of the cerebellum here if you see all these little like little divots there it's actually called folia.
So the folia are basically like the folds of the cerebellum. Okay, so all these little lines right there that you see forming these little folds, that's called the folia. Alright guys, so if you look right here, right in between the actual cerebellum, there's actually this little worm-like structure between them. It's actually called the vermis.
And in between the vermis, there's like an actual dural septa, like I said before, that actually runs in between there. And that dural septa is actually called the falx cerebelli. The falx cerebelli. Okay again, so this structure right there between the two cerebellum is the actual vermis and the dural septa that goes between the two is actually called the falx cerebelli.
All right, so that pretty much covers the cerebellum. Now what we're going to do is we're going to move on to the cranial nerves. So if we look right here, we're going to see cranial nerve one, that's the olfactory nerve. And again, remember that the olfactory nerve originates in the nasal cavity. through the olfactory epithelium and that actually picks up certain types of sensations like smell from odorants and different types of chemicals and carries that up through the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone and then all up into specific up into this olfactory bulb here where there's glomeruli and mitral cells.
Okay so he's a sensory nerve. Then right here you're gonna notice two optic nerves right there so there's your left optic nerve there's your right optic nerve and then the point in which they cross is called the optic chia asthma. Okay, and so the optic nerve is, you know, basically picks up sensations of vision.
So he picks up the vision stimulus and then takes that into the actual cerebrum, right, specifically to that primary visual cortex. Then if we go, we're going to have to go in and separate this guy so we can look at some other structures here so we can look at the midbrain a little bit deeper. I guess if we look here, we can see cranial nerve three actually comes out in between the interpeduncular fossil right there at the midbrain.
It's called the oculomotor nerve, cranial nerve three. The oculomotor nerve actually runs through the superior orbital fissure and supplies a lot of the extraocular eye muscles. I also didn't mention the hole that the optic nerve runs through, but you can imagine it's the optic canal.
So again, the oculomotor nerve runs through the superior orbital fissure and supplies a lot of extraocular eye muscles. Then if we come down here, we can see this little white thing right there, guys, that little white piece of thing popping down there. That's called the trochlear nerve. So that's called trochlear nerve or cranial nerve.
nerve 4 and the cranial nerve 4 or the trochlear nerve actually runs also through the superior orbital fissure and supplies the it's called the superior oblique muscle it's just another extraocular eye muscle okay so he plays a role in motor functioning all right so here's the trochlear nerve again right so that's cranial nerve 4 and then if you look down here we have these two nerves because they're paired guys so we're going to see the trigeminal nerve here which is cranial nerve 5 and you'll see the trigeminal nerve here which is again cranial nerve 5 so the trigeminal nerve is a really big one and it actually splits into three branches. And it actually runs through three holes. It can run through the superior orbital fissure.
It can run through the foramen ovale and the foramen rotundum. And the trigeminal nerve supplies the muscles of mastication, and he also supplies certain areas of the skin of the face to pick up sensation. So he plays a role in muscle action, which is mastication, chewing. And he also picks up sensations on the face.
Interestingly, this is This is actually, if this has what's called neuralgia, trigeminal neuralgia, where there's some certain type of nerve pain, this can cause one of the most severe nerve pains actually known to man. It's actually called trigeminal neuralgia and it's extremely, extremely painful. They actually call it the suicide disease. All right, then if we come down here to this structure right there and that structure right there, these are actually your cranial nerve six or the abducens nerve and he also runs through the superior orbital fissure. and he supplies the lateral rectus and again that's another extraocular eye muscle.
Then if we move out laterally over here we're gonna have these two guys see this one right there and this one over here that's actually called the facial nerve so that's cranial nerve seven so this one right there and this one right there okay and the facial nerve has five branches but he can run through the a stylo-mastoid for Raymond, and he also can run through the internal acoustic meatus. But basically he supplies the muscles of facial expression. A lot of glands within the, like the lacrimal gland and nasal glands and stuff like that. So he plays a role in both.
He actually plays, and he also picks up sensations, again, from the face as well. So he's actually a motor nerve and a sensory nerve. Okay, so that's the facial nerve.
Then if we go over here to the edge, these ones, that one right there over there. And this one right there on that edge, that is actually called the vestibulocochlear nerve. And the vestibulocochlear nerve, he also runs through the internal acoustic meatus, and he basically carries dynamic and static equilibrium.
and just general sound and hearing. And that's that guy. Then if we come down here, there's this little chunk right there, which is the same chunk right there.
That's called the glossopharyngeal nerve, which is cranial nerve. nerve 9 and he actually runs through the jugular foramen and he supplies the tongue, he supplies certain muscles of the pharynx, he also can act as, he can pick up sensations from the baroreceptors so he plays a lot of roles in different sensory and motor functions as well. Okay, below him is the vagus nerve, so this one right there and this one right there.
That's cranial nerve 10, so again vagus nerve right there and right there. He is the main parasympathetic nerve. He carries about 90% of the parasympathetic flow.
He also runs through the jugular foramen. He supplies many, many different organs from the heart to the lungs to the GI tract to the urogenital tract, so on and so forth. Again that's your vagus nerve.
So if you look down here guys, you'll see this nerve right here and over here. It's cranial nerve 11 which is called the accessory nerve. Now the accessory nerve has a lot of different functions. has two parts, one that actually is on the cervical part of the spinal cord and one on this medulla here, like the medullary branch. What happens is the cervical branch of the accessory nerve comes up through the foramen magnum and merges with this branch off the medulla.
As a collection, they run through the jugular foramen and they go and supply the trapezius muscle and the sternocleidomastoid, which are, again, those somatic muscles or skeletal muscle. All right. So that's the accessory. So he's mainly a motor nerve.
And then the last one right here is this guy right there, which is the same as this guy right there. That's cranial nerve 12, which is the hypoglossal nerve. And the hypoglossal nerve actually runs through what's called the hypoglossal canal and supplies some of the extrinsic muscles of the tongue. So he's mainly a motor nerve. All right guys, so that pretty much covers all the cranial nerves.
I hope this video helped guys and see you Ninja Nerds.