Brain Flashcards

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Medulla Oblongata

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Responsible for respiration and circulation, also regulates digestion, sneezing, and swallowing.

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Pons

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Relay signals from forebrain to cerebellum, controls breathing and communication with other parts of the brain, also sensations like hearing, taste, and balance.

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Hypothalamus

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maintains homeostasis, processes horomones

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Frontal lobe

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motor function, problem solving, memory, language

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Parietal Lobe

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Integrated sensory information to preform a single perception, usually deals with vision.

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Occipital lobe

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Visual processing center

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Corpus Callosum

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consists of many axons that interconnect in the two hemispheres.to integrate motor, sensory, and cognitive performances between cerebral and cortex sides of the brain

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Thalamus

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Acts as a relay between different subcortical areas and the cerebral cortex. Every sensory system includes a thalamic nucleus that receives and sends sensory signals.

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Cerebellum

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Receives information from the sensory systems, the spinal cord, and other parts to regulate movements, controls voluntary movements.

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Temporal Lobe

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high level auditory processing, primary auditory perception, holds primary auditory cortex

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