Head trauma often leads to greatly increased pressure inside the skull, so doctors must drill into the skull and drain off some CSF to reduce the pressure. Where do they need to drill in order to do this?
During brain surgery to resect (remove) a tumor, surgeons "map" the brain by stimulating different regions of the cerebral cortex while the patient is awake and observing how the patient responds. If the surgeon stimulates the brain and the patient moves his left arm, where in the brain must the doctor be stimulating?
In an adult human, what would you find if you drilled into the L4 level of the vertebral column?
Where would you find the cell bodies of the cells responsible for motor function in the brain (aka. the upper motor neurons)?
In all the afferent sensory pathways below the neck, where is the cell body of the first-order neuron found?
The regions of skin that are monitored for sensation by a pair of spinal nerves at a specific level in the spinal cord (e.g. T7) are called what?
Why don't you feel the shirt you are wearing unless you focus your attention on it? There are two possible reasons.