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Frontal Lobe

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Cognitive ability, decision-making

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Occipital Lobe

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Visual perception

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Temporal Lobe

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Audio perception, face recognition

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Parietal Lobe

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Integrate sensory and motor functions

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Amygdala

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Long term declarative memory, fight or flight, emotion

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Thalamus

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Relays signal from CNS to nervous system

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Hypothalamus

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Endocrine, visceral, emotional, sexual functions through pituitary gland

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Limbic structures

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Memory, modulation of hypothalamic functions and emotion

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Midbrain

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Fine motor functions, such as blinking, reflexes, coordinate sensory output
Cranial nerve: III, IV

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Basal ganglia

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Coordinate complex movements

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Cerebellum

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Coordinate movements and motor learning

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Pons

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Breathing and posture, also governs sleep and arousal

Cranial nerve: V, VI, VII

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Medulla

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Contain spinal cord and control basic functions (respiratory and cardiac centres)
Cranial nerve: VIII, IX, X, XII

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Inhibitory neurons

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Loop back to previous segment by hyperpolarizing the dendrite membrane (making it more negative)

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Excitatory neurons

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Relay signal fowards by depolarising the dendrite membrane (less negative)

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Dendrites

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Collect signals

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Axons

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Send signals

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Glia

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Homeostasis for neurons

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Hippocampus

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Long term memory

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Prefrontal cortex

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Decision making, long term memory

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Long-term potentiation

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Increase number of glutamate receptors due to learning and memory

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Co-contraction

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Contraction of antagonist and agonist

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Insula

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Sense of disgust and pain

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Periaqueductal gray

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Stress and pain

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Nucleus accumbens

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Reward pathway

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Pituitary gland

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Endocrine system regulation

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Pinneal gland

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Circadian rhythms

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Broca’s area

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Motor aspect of speech

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Wernicke’s area

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Speech comprehension

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Corpus callosum

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Divides the 2 hemispheres, relays information between them

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Reticular formation

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Consciousness

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Lateral, third and fourth ventricles

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Contain CSF, electrolytes and conduit for metabolic products

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Caudate nucleus

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Spatial processing and directed movements

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Putamen

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Limbic movements

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Globus pallidus

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Transmit information

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Vermis

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Symmetrical hemispheres within the cerebellum

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Cerebral aqueduct

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Connects the third to fourth ventricle

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Choroid plexus

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Secrete CSF

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