VPB 121: Veterinary Physiology - II (2+1)

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

• The CNS comprise the brain and the spinal cord.
• The brain consists of structures situated intra cranially and includes cerebrum, mid brain, pons, medulla, and cerebellum.

• Brain is divided into distinct regions,
  • The fore brain [prosencephalon] which is subdivide into telencephalon [two cerebral  hemisphere] and diencephalon or inter brain [consists epithalamus, thalamus, subthalamus and hypothalamus, posterior pituitary and pineal glands]
  • The mid brain or mesencephalon
  • Hind brain or rhombencephalon comprising pons, medulla, and cerebellum.