brain! Flashcards
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Frontal Lobe
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- Voluntary movements
- Reasoning and decision making
- Memory
- Ability to predict consequences
2
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Parietal
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- Processing temperature, touch, taste, pain, and movement
- Visual-spatial processing
- Body positioning
3
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Occipital
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- Visual processing
- Vison and memory of objects
4
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Temporal
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- Processing memory and linking them with sense
- Receives auditory information
- Comprehension and pronunciation
- Sensation of smell
5
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Medulla Oblangata
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- Automatically adjusts body functions
- All centres influenced and controlled hypothalamus
- Reflexes;sneezing, coughing, etc
- Cardiac center: regulates rate and force of heartbeats
- Respitory: rate and depth of breathing
6
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Cerebellum
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- Posture, balance, fiber coordination of voluntary muscle movement; receives sensory information -> stretch receptors in skeletal muscle
- Conscious control; body can work without it
7
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Insula
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- Recognition of different sense and emotions, addiction, and psychic disorders
8
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Corpus Callosum
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- Base of longitudinal fissure made of white matter
- Large bundle of transverse fibers
- Cross from one cerebral hemisphere to other
- Allows communication
9
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Cerebrum
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- Outer surface of cerebral cortex
- Contains 70% of neurons
- Divided into four lobes (frontal, parietal, temporal ad occipital)
