# Neurology Help Solicited **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 15, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neurology-help-solicited/449377 "2008-05-15T00:49:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neurology-help-solicited/449377/1 "2008-05-15T00:49:31Z")
So, I am looking up different parts of the brain for some neurology review. I was wondering if anyone could help me add to this so I can get a more complete picture of what I need to study to bone up on my understanding of the brain. > **[List of regions in the human brain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_in_the_human_brain)** > > The human brain anatomical regions are ordered following standard neuroanatomy hierarchies. Functional, connective, and developmental regions are listed in parentheses where appropriate. > The limbic system, also known as the paleomammalian cortex, is a set of brain structures located on both sides of the thalamus, immediately beneath the medial temporal lobe of the cerebrum primarily in the midbrain. The classification of structures as part of the limbic system is historical and originates from... So, I don’t know precisely what my question is, but I’d like to get a discussion of neurology going, as I don’t really understand the relationships between parts of the brain. I have a bit of an understanding of the brain’s basic anatomy but not what is governed by what and how they interact with one another. I am putting this hear, because the answers need to be factual, but my question is broad, so I am inviting people to tell me anything that will help me complete my knowledge of the brain as I learn associatively much better than by rote. IE, if I know how things are connected I’ll be much more capable of remembering precisely which parts are where. I need to study for my licensing exam for massage therapy, and one of the things I did the weakest on was the brain section of my neurology course because the time we spent on it was when my own brain decided it was vacation time in the middle of the semester. I passed the course, but didn’t get the material down as well as I would have liked. I also think I am going to pursue a somato-cognitive track in the long term so I’d like to get this stuff down well now. As I am a Kinesthetic learner, it helps me to interact with the info, so having a typed conversation will aid in retention. This is one of the reasons I message board so frequently, because discussion is one of the best ways to help me retain information. So if you have any ideas about things that interest you about the brain, interactions between parts, peculiar pathologies or anything. I’d love to hear about it. I watched this video: [VS Ramachandran: 3 clues to understanding your brain | TED Talk](http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/184) I particularly found the bit about Capgras Syndrome to be most interesting. Capgras syndrome impacts the Fusiform Gyrus which deals with facial recognition. Somehow the info from the Amygdala doesn’t intergrate with the Facial recognition in the Fusiform Gyrus properly, so you don’t get the proper emotional associations with facial recognition. IE, you won’t recognize your Mother as your Mother. You can see that she looks like your Mother, but you don’t recognize her as your Mother. This only happens in terms of facial recognition. You’d recognize her for instance if she called ou on the phone. It is that sort of information about how the information integrates that I am most interested in. I recognize that my query may be a bit too vague, but I’ll see how this fishing expedition turns out. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neurology-help-solicited/449377/2 "2008-05-15T00:56:10Z")
Check out the coloring books: [The Human Brain Coloring Book](http://www.amazon.com/Human-Brain-Coloring-Book-Cos/dp/0064603067) [A Colorful Introduction to the Anatomy of the Human Brain: A Brain and Psychology Coloring Book (2nd Edition)](http://www.amazon.com/Colorful-Introduction-Anatomy-Human-Brain/dp/0205548741/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b) ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neurology-help-solicited/449377/3 "2008-05-15T01:02:50Z")
Done, both are ordered. I should have thought of that as the Anatomy Coloring Book was incredibly useful. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neurology-help-solicited/449377/4 "2008-05-15T01:07:18Z")
There is a gene that helps form the boundary between the Prethalamus and the Thalamus named after Sonic the Hedgehog. > **[Zona limitans intrathalamica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zona_limitans_intrathalamica)** > > The zona limitans intrathalamica (ZLI) is a lineage-restriction compartment and primary developmental boundary in the vertebrate forebrain (which is analogous to the human cerebrum) that serves as a signaling center and a restrictive border between the thalamus (also known as the dorsal thalamus) and the prethalamus (ventral thalamus). > Sonic hedgehog (shh) signaling from the ZLI is crucial in the development of the diencephalon, which develops into the thalamus, the pretectum, and the anterior t... ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neurology-help-solicited/449377/5 "2008-05-15T01:45:41Z")
Read [The Working Brain](http://www.amazon.com/Working-Brain-Introduction-Neuropsychology/dp/046509208X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210815860&sr=8-1) by A.R. Luria. It isn’t light reading, but you get a comprehensive understanding of the inter-relationships between the various lobes and areas of the brain. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neurology-help-solicited/449377/6 "2008-05-16T00:13:57Z")
Why is it that parts of the brain manage seemingly unrelated functions. For instance the Hypothalamus. > [@](#): > > The hypothalamus is a complex region in the brain of humans, and even small nuclei within the hypothalamus are involved in many different functions. The paraventricular nucleus for instance contains oxytocin and vasopressin (also called antidiuretic hormone) neurons which project to the posterior pituitary, but also contains neurons that regulate ACTH and TSH secretion (which project to the anterior pituitary), gastric reflexes, maternal behavior, blood pressure, feeding, immune responses, and temperature. What is related about these systems that makes the hypothalamus govern them all?