Educational Tools to Aid Your Understanding

The OMC Neuroanatomy pathway tutorials are a good way to review pathways. Pathway diagrams are drawn on cross sections to show you how the pathways that carry information are related to CNS structures. These tutorials also contain explanatory text and practice tests.

EXAM REVIEW

Review pathways with this tutorial (created by Justin Van Klein, class of 2012) that sequentially steps through each slide while highlighting the relevant structure for a pathway and displaying its name and level. Pathways include: tactile sensation, pain and temp, trigeminal, auditory, pupillary constriction, and lateral conjugate gaze. The tutorial also contains practice questions.

Test yourself on slide structures for Exams 1 and 2 with this tutorial (created by Tim Lai, class of 2012), which presents each cross section slide and asks you to name structures.

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Nerve Cell Tutorials
   Review the components and properties of neurons.

Nerve Cell Components (interactive)
Histology of the Nervous System (Dr Cotter video)

Blood Vessels Tutorial
   Review the blood supply to hemispheres, brainstem, spinal cord.

Blood Vessels

Gross Brain See-Through Pictures
   DRAG the circle in the pictures to look around!

Corpus Callosum
Association Fibers
Hippocampus- Lateral view
Hippocampus- Dorsal view

Cursor-Activated Pictures
   Use the cursor to find the structures,
   then click them to display information.

Subarachnoid Cisterns
Ventricles - this also contains an animation controlled by play and stop buttons.

Animations
   Watch physiological processes in action

Hypothalamus-Pituitary - understand how the Hypothalamus influences the Pituitary.
Synaptic Transmission - use the Play and Stop buttons to see how synapses work.
Accommodation - watch the effect of the ciliary body on lens shape in the eye by moving the slider.

Rotate the Gross Brain

Rotating Brain - Use your mouse to get a 360 degree view of a human brain