NETTER - Neuroscience Flash Cards

Anatomy of the Medial (Midsagittal)
Surface of the Brain In Situ
1. Optic chiasm
2. Lamina terminalis
3. Anterior commissure
4. Thalamus
5. Fornix
6. Cingulate gyrus
7. Paracentral lobule
8. Corpus callosum
9. Cuneus
10. Calcarine cortex, upper bank
11. Calcarine sulcus (fissure)
12. Calcarine cortex, lower bank
13. Pineal gland
Comment: On a midsagittal view of the brain, the commissural
bundles are visible (corpus callosum, anterior commissure, posterior
commissure); all of the structures of the brain stem are visible
(medulla, pons, midbrain), as well as the thalamus and hypothalamus;
and the components of the ventricular system are visible (third
ventricle and the interventricular foramen of Monro opening into the
more laterally located lateral ventricles, the aqueduct, the fourth
ventricle, the caudal openings into the subarachnoid space [foramina
of Magendie and of Luschka] and some of the subarachnoid cisterns
[cisterna magna]).
Overview of the Nervous System See book 3.4