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All about the brain Flashcards

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Soma

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Nucleus

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Axon

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Sending impulses down neuron

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Myuclin Sheeth

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Protect cell & Speed up messages

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Node of Ranvier

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Maintains speed

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5
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Dendrites

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Detects messages

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Terminal

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Transmit info

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Sensory neurons

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Sense info (afferent)

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Motor neuron

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Allows us to move (efferent)

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9
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Interneuron

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Spinal cord

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10
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Terminal Button

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Contain synthetic vessels

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11
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Synthetic Bessels

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Hold nerons

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12
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Excitatory NT

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Allows next neuron to fire

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Acetylcholine

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Controls muscle movement, learning, and memory

Too much- muscle weakness
Too little- Alzheimers

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14
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Dopamine

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Emotion & reward system

Too much- Schizophrenia
Too little- Parkinsons

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Norepinephrine

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Fight or flight response

Too much- anxiety
Too little- depressed mood

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Glutamate

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Excitatory NT & memory

Too much-Migraines/seizures
Too little- ADHD like syptoms

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17
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Inhibitory NT

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Stop/prevent a neural impuls

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GABA

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Help calm down

Too much- Shortness of breath & numbness
Too little- Tremors & insomnia

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Serotonin

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Regulate mood, hunger, and sleep

Too much- Muscle stiffness & seizures
Too little- Depression

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20
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Peripheral NS

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Outside

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21
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Autonomic

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Automaticly

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22
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Somatic

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Volentary

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Sympathetic NS

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Fight or Flight

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Parasympathetic

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Help relax the body

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CNS

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Main decision maker

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26
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Pituitary gland

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Master gland

27
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Adrenal

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Kidney - Adrenaline

28
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Thyroid

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Neck - Metabolism

29
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Pancreas

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Liver - Blood sugar

30
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Parathyroid

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Neck - Calcium

31
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Ganads

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Testi/ovary - Testosterone/Estrogen

32
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Brain Stem

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Automatic survival functions

33
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Medulla

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Breathing & heart rate

34
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Pon

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Coordinates movement & sleeping/dreaming

35
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Reticular formation

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Nerve network & attention

36
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Thalamus

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Sensory control center relays sensory info (not smell)

37
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Cerebellum (little brain)

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Balance & coordination, fine motor skills, implicit memories

38
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Limbic system

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Associated with emotion

39
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Amygdala

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Anger, fear, aggression, emotional memory

40
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Hypothalamus

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(F5) Flight, Fight Fahrenheit, Feeding, & Fornicate

41
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Hippocampus

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Explicit memory formation & long term memory

42
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Basal ganglia

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Voluntary movements & habits

43
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Pituitary gland (master gland) Part 2

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Directs other glands in endocrine system & controlled by hypthalamus

44
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Cerebral cortex

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Allows us to think, process info & make decisions

45
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Frontal lobes

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Info processing decision making, judgment planning, personality

46
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Parietal lobe

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Body sensation interprets visual info language & math processing

47
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Occipital lobe

48
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Temporal lobe

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Center for hearing

49
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Motor cortex

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planning control & execution voluntary movment

50
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Somatosensory cortex

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Perception of all senesation

51
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Corpus callosum

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Connects the 2 hemispheres in the brain

52
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Visual cortex

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Processes visual info

53
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Auditory cortex

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Processes auditory info

54
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Brocas

55
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Wernickes area

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Understanding speech & making meaning full sentences

56
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EEG

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  • Find function
  • Via electrical signals
  • Only good for sleep & seizures
57
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CT

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  • Find the structure
  • Via X-rays
  • good for lesions
58
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PET

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  • Find the function

- Radioactive glucose

59
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MRI

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  • Find the structure

- Via magnets

60
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FMIR

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  • Find the function & structure

- Via magnets & oxidized blood

61
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Neuroplasticity

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Is the ability of the brain to modify its connections or rewire itself.

62
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Split-brain syndrome

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Cutting the corpus callosum to alleviate epileptic seizures

63
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Positive of a split-brain

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Allows people to use 2 hemispheres to complete an independent task

64
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Basket + Ball

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Right- human faces
- can't say basket
- draw basket
-left hand
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Left- language
- could say & draw the ball
- right hand

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