Brain

Question 1

Frontal lobe:

Answer 1

Planning/ reasonung, problem-solving, recognising and regulating emotion, social skills.

Question 2

Temporal lobe:

Answer 2

Understanding language, processing auditory information, organising information, memory, learning.

Question 3

Brain stem:

Answer 3

Regulates breathing, body temperature, heart activity etc.

Question 4

Parietal lobe:

Answer 4

Recognising sensations and body position, regognising objects, soatial judgements, understanding time.

Question 5

Occipital lobe:

Answer 5

Integrating and processing visual information (colour, shape, distance)

Question 6

Cerebellum:

Answer 6

Balance and muscular coordination.

Question 7

Medulla:

Answer 7

Control of heartbet and breathing. Contains centers that control several visceral functions.

Question 8

Cerebral hemisphere:

Answer 8

Memory and reasoning.

Question 9

Midbrain:

Answer 9

Eye movments. Contains centers for the receipt and integration of several types of sensory information.

Question 10

Alzheimer´s disease:

Answer 10

• Dementia.
• Affects older people.
• Due to formation of small scars with a protien and riuned cell parts in synapses in the brain.
• Contacts between nerve cells get worse and the amount of neu. trans. decreases.
• Worse memory, navigation problems.

Question 11

Multiple Sclerosis:

Answer 11

• Destruction of myelin sheaths around neu.s in the brain, spinal cord and optic nervs.
• Numbness in arms and legs, sight problems.

Question 12

The brainstem consists of three parts:

Answer 12

• Medulla oblongata
• The pons
• Midbrain.

Question 13

The pons:

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Answer 13

Also participates in visceral functions.