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1-BRAIN STUFF Flashcards

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cerebral cortex

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  • surface of the brain
    • very uneven
  • (outer suface of the brain is associated with higher level processes)
    • consciousness
    • thought
    • emotion
    • reasoning
    • language
    • memory
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gyri (gyrus)

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the meat fingers in brain

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sulci (sulcus)

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grooves in the brain

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longitudinal sulcus

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fissure between the two hemispheres

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corpus collosum

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connects the two hemispheres!
allows the left hemisphere to communicate with the right hemisphere!

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contralaterally

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DA BRAIN IR ORGANIZED THIS WAY!!

  • left body → right hemisphere
  • right body → left hemisphere
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FRONTAL LOBE

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executive functioning
involved in reasoning motor control, emotion, language
extends back to fissure known as central sulcus

has:
-primary motor cortex
-prefrontal cortex
-broca’s area

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primary motor cortex

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  • involved in planning and coordinating movement
    • the thick finger at the back of the frontal lobe
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prefrontal cortex

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  • esponsivle for higher-level cognitive functioning
    • the front part of the frontal lobe, excluding the primary motor cortex
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broca’s area

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speech and language production
IN THE FRONTAL LOBE!

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parietal lobe

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involved in processing information from the body’s senses.
- how we move through space and time!! → perception

has somatosensory cortex

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somatosensory cortex

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in PARIETAL LOBE!!
- the finger closest to the front of the lobe
- sensory information!!
- touch, temperature, pain

also organized topographically

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topographically

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organized on brain as you are organized as a person

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temporal lobe

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on side of head, associated with hearing, memory, emotion, and some aspects of language

has primary auditory cortex and wernicke’s area

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occipital lobe

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  • contains the primary visual cortex, which is responsible for interpreting incoming visual information.
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how is the primary visual cortex organized

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  • retinotopically,
    • how you actually see the thing is mirrored by the brain activity seen!!
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Subcortical Areas of the Forebrain

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thalamus
hypothalamus
limbic system
- hippocampus
- amygdala

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thalamus

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  • sensory relay for the brain
    • All of our senses, with the exception of smell, are routed through the thalamus before being directed to other areas of the brain for processing.
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The limbic system

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  • involved in processing both emotion and memory.
    • smell projects directly to the limbic system

limbic system contains hippocampus and amygdala

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hippocampus

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  • emotions, learning and memory
    • recipe card for the memory
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amygdala

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  • experience of emotion and in tying emotional meaning to our memories.
  • emotion regulation
    • especially sensitive to fear and anger
  • involved in learning (emotion)
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hypothalamus

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  • regulates a number of homeostatic processes
  • interface between the nervous system and the endocrine system
  • regulation of sexual motivation and behavior.
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endocrine system

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creates the hormones

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midbrain

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neurotransmitters are made in hindbrain!!!!
- substantia nigra
- ventral tegmental area (VTA)
- Raphe Nuclei
- locus coeruleus

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ventral tegmental area (VTA) and substantia nigra

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  • contain cell bodies that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine
  • both are critical for movement.
  • Degeneration is involved in Parkinson’s disease.
  • structures are involved in mood, reward, and addiction
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Raphe Nuclei

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creates serotonin

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locus coeruleus:

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creates norepinephrine

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HINDBRAIN

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unconscious and reflexes!
- reticular formation
- medulla
- pons
-cerebellum

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reticular formation

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  • projects from the hindbrain through the midbrain up into the forebrain
  • regulating the sleep/wake cycle, arousal, alertness, and motor activity.
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medulla

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heart beating, blood circulation, breathing

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pons

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relays information from cerebellum to the rest of the brain

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cerebellum

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receives messages from muscles, tendons, joints, and structures in our ear to control balance, coordination, movement, and motor skills; fine motor skills

- movement begins in motor cortex, but when the signal is refined, this goes to the cerebellum
- also thought to be an important area for processing some types of memories.
    - procedural memory, or memory involved in learning and remembering how to perform tasks

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