1- Gracile Nucleus

2- Gracile Fasciculus

3- Cuneate Fasciculus

4- Spinal Trigeminal Nucleus

5- Pyramid

6-Decussation of the Pyramids

Sample slide questions:

1) Where are the cell bodies that give rise to the cuneate fasciculus?

2) Where are the cell bodies that give rise to the pyramid fibers?

1- Gracile Nucleus

2- Cuneate Nucleus

3- Cuneate Fasciculus

4- Spinal Trigeminal Nucleus

5- Spinal Trigeminal Tract

6- Pyramids

7- Decussation of the Pyramids

8-Gracile Fasciculus

Sample slide questions:

1) What kind of information is processed in the gracile nucleus? From what part of the body?

2) Where will the fibers in the pyramids terminate?

1- Spinal Trigeminal Nucleus

2- Spinal Trigeminal Tract

3- Inferior Olive

4- Pyramid

5- Medial Lemniscus

6- Reticular Formation

7- Gracile Nucleus

Sample slide questions:

1) Where will the fibers of the medial lemnicus terminate?

2) What structure is #3 in the current slide?

1- Gracile Nucleus

2- Cuneate Nucleus

3- Spinal Trigeminal Nucleus

4- Spinal Trigeminal Tract

5- Inferior Olive

6- Pyramid

7- Medial Lemniscus

8- Internal Arcuate Fibers

Sample slide questions:

1) Where do internal arcuate fibers terminate?

2) Where does the spinal trigeminal tract terminate?

1- Gracile Nucleus

2- Cuneate Nucleus

3- Cuneate Fasciculus

4- Spinal Trigeminal Nucleus

5- Spinal Trigeminal Tract

6- Inferior Olive

7- Pyramids

8- Medial Lemniscus

9- Internal Arcuate Fibers/ Reticular Formation

Sample slide questions:

1) What is the differences between #4 and #5 above?

2) Where do the fibers of #3 originate?

1- Spinal Trigeminal Nucleus

2- Spinal Trigeminal Tract

3- Inferior Olive

4- Medial Lemniscus

5- Pyramid

6- Internal Arcuate Fibers

Sample slide questions:

1) Where do the fibers orinating in #3 terminate?

2) What kind of information is carried in #4?

1- Reticular Formation

2- Inferior Olive

3- Pyramid

4- Medial Lemniscus

5- Inferior Cerebellar Peduncle

Sample slide questions:

1) Name one source of descending input to the inferior olive.

2) What kind of information is carried in #3?

1- Fourth Ventricle

2- Inferior Cerebellar Peduncle

3- Inferior Olive

4- Pyramid

5- Medial Lemniscus

6- Reticular Formation

7- Cochlear Nucleus

Sample slide questions:

1) Does #2 provide input to or output from the cerebellum?

2) Name two functions of #6.

1- Fourth Ventricle

2- Inferior Olive

3- Medial Lemniscus

4- Pyramid

5- Reticular Formation

6- Inferior Cerebellar Peduncle

Sample slide questions:

1) How do the axons from #2 terminate?

2) Where will the axons in #3 terminate?