Study Guide: Neuro and Endocrine Physiology in 103 Flashcards, from Brodmann Areas to the HPA Axis

Deck IL3597 carries 103 cards under a title that promises physiology, but the first half is closer to a guided tour of neuroscience: what the techniques are, who invented them, what each structure is called. The second half is the real mechanism work — glands, hormones and the axes that connect them. Spotting that split before you start is what keeps the deck from feeling like one undifferentiated pile.

Three blocks, three ways to study them

Cards 1-24 define the discipline and its toolkit. Cards 10-21 and 30-44 are history and eponyms: Hippocrates on epilepsy, Galen against Aristotle, the Bell-Magendie law, Brodmann's 52 cortical areas, Penfield's homunculus, the Circle of Willis. Only cards 25-29 touch core electrophysiology. From card 53 the deck turns into endocrinology, and the final fifteen cards are developmental — adrenal cortex from intermediate mesoderm, pharyngeal pouches, DiGeorge syndrome, fetal insulin, the SRY gene.

What you walk away knowing

EEG, MEG, fMRI, PET, single-cell recording, chemogenetics, calcium imaging, immunohistochemistry, Neuropixels probes, local field potentials; action potential, resting potential, myelin sheath, neurotransmitters, synaptic plasticity, neural coding; substantia nigra, cingulate gyrus, fasciculus cuneatus, medulla oblongata, cerebellum, Broca's area, pineal gland; the HPT, HPG and HPA axes, the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, tropic hormones, T3/T4, PTH and vitamin D activation, glucagon and insulin, islets of Langerhans, granulosa and Leydig cells, anti-Mullerian hormone.

Two things worth doing

Study the endocrine half as diagrams, not as cards. Sketch the three axes on one page (TRH→TSH→T3/T4, GnRH→LH/FSH→sex hormones, CRH→ACTH→cortisol), then use cards 66-68 only to check yourself. Cards 89-103 are a separate exam topic — embryology — so give them their own session rather than mixing them with adult physiology.

Read the truncated fronts as fill-in-the-blank. Several cards lost their opening question: Medulla oblongata responsible for, Nernst equation used for in neurophysiology, Fetal insulin responsible for, Study of the endocrine system and its disorders called. They still work once you mentally restore the What is….

Three backs to rewrite before you drill them

The Golgi card says he discovered that nerve cells form a continuous network. What he actually discovered in 1873 was the silver stain; the continuous network was the reticular theory he defended, and Cajal's neuron doctrine disproved it. The ECT card credits Jean-Baptiste Le Roy in 1755 — he applied electricity to a blind patient; electroconvulsive therapy is Cerletti and Bini, 1938. And the myelin card says Schwann cells, which is true only in the peripheral nervous system: in the CNS, oligodendrocytes do the job.

Deck IL3597 — Neuro & Endocrine Physiology is in the Flip It library at flip-it.app. If you are building a full systems block, pair it with renal and respiratory physiology.