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Basic Functional Neuroanatomy Brain Map

Cortical Zones (architectonic/functional)

Primary visual cortex V1 Basic Behavioral Domains


– – –unimodal - –

Primary sensory & motor zones Primary auditory cortex A1


Primary somatosensory cortex S1 Somatosensory
Primary motor cortex M1 Face
Trunk, UE, LE

cortex
Visual (VA) Motor system
Unimodal association zone Auditory (AA) Head
(perception) Somatosensory Hands and arms
Motor Temporal cortex Feet and legs
Temporoparietal cortex Coordination
– – –– – – – –transmodal - – – – – – – –

Heteromodal association zone Wernicke’s area Equilibrium


(perceptual integration) Posterior parietal Visual Sensory and
Prefrontal/frontal cortex Occulomotor
Orbitofrontal cortex Auditory Sensory
Olfaction

Motor system of basal ganglia


Insula

(extrapyramidal—involuntary)
Paralimbic zone

(CN II + geniculostriate)
Temporal pole Septal nuclei/nucleus basilis Homeostasis
(emotion/motivation link) Autonomic functions
Parahippocampus cortices

Visual system
Piriform cortex
Cingulate cortex/complex Endocrine functions

(corticostriate)
Amygdala
Hippocampus/entorhinal complex Cognitive Domains
Hypothalamus–mtt–mam body

(lateral lemniscus)
Auditory system
Limbic zone Epithalamus and Habenula Attention/concentration
Reticular formation Working memory
Fornix Memory

Medial lemniscus system


Corticobulbar system
Limbic striatum implicit
Substantia innominata (thalamus) explicit

(corticonuclear)
Basal ganglia Globus pallidus Language
receptive (aud., vis.)
Neostriatum expressive (writing, oral)

Corticospinal system
(pyramidal—voluntary)
Calculation
Loop pathways

caudate
putamen (+ globus pallidus = lenticular nucleus) cortex Tactile perceptual
Striatum sterognosis
Limbic (ventral) striatum
nucleus accumbens visuognosis
olfactory tubercle Corticopontocerebellar Visual–spatial perception,

Cerebellum
Globus pallidus pallidothalamic imagery, reasoning
Auditory discrimination,
Diencephalon Thalamus + portions of limbic zone imagery
Vestibulocerebellar

Epithalamus (striamedullaris, habenula, pineal) Praxis


Subthalamus (includes hypothalamus) ambulatory
Internal capsule ideomotor
Spinocerebellar

Brainstem I
II LGN ideational
III constructional
Midbrain (mesencephalon)
activation system

IV Abstraction
substantia nigra
V Sequencing/planning
red nucleus
VI Inf. Colliculus Conation
Pons
Reticular

VII Sup. Colliculus Metacognition/insight


locus ceruleus Cross above pyramids
VIII MGN Mood–state/affect
Medulla oblongata
IX Cross at medulla Thought process/content
inferior olivary complex
X pyramids Comportment
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