Brain parts

Question 1

Fore brain

Answer 1

Complex perceptual, cognitive and behavioral processes; emotion and memory

Cerebral cortex
Basal Gangilia 
Hypothalamus
Limbic System 
Thalamus 
(Lisa Tell Happy Cut Bananas)

Question 2

Cerebral cortex

Answer 2

Complex perceptual, cognitive and behavioral processing ( language processing, problem solving, impulse control and long term planning).

Question 3

Basal gangilia

Answer 3

Smooth movement and maintain postural stability

Question 4

Limbic system

Answer 4

Emotion and memory

Contains: septal nuclei, amygdala and hippocampus

Question 5

Thalamus

Answer 5

Relay station for sensory information

All senses except smell

Question 6

Hypothalamus

Answer 6

Maintains homeostasis and takes care of hunger thirst and emotion

4 fours
Feeding
Fighting
Flighting 
(Sexual) Functioning

Question 7

Mid brain

Answer 7

Receives sensory and motor information from he rest of the body; reflexes to auditory and visual stimuli

Inferior and superior colliculi

Question 8

Colliculi

Answer 8

Sensorimotor reflexes

Superior- receives visual sensory input

Inferior- receives auditory sensory input

Question 9

Hind brain

Answer 9

Balance, motor coordination, berating, digestion and general arousal- sleep waking and viral funtionaning

Cerebellum
Medulla oblongata
Reticular formation

Question 10

Cerebellum

Answer 10

Refined motor movements

Question 11

Reticular formation

Answer 11

Arousal and alertness

Question 12

Medulla oblongata

Answer 12

Viral functioning such as breathing and digestion

Question 13

Lateral hypothalamus

Answer 13

Hunger center

LH destroyers one lacks hunger

Question 14

Ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH)

Answer 14

Satiety center
Provides signals to stop eating. Brain lesions here lead to obesity

When VMH destroyed one is very much hungry

Question 15

Anterior hypothalamus

Answer 15

Controls sexual behavior and sleep and arousal

Anterior hypothalamus is destroyed one is AsexuL

Question 16

Pineal gland

Answer 16

Biological rhythms; releases melatonin that regulates circadian rhythms

Question 17

Septal nuclei

Answer 17

Primary pleasure center

Association between the nuclei and addictive behavior

Question 18

Amygdala

Answer 18

Role in defensive and aggressive behavior, fear and Rage

Question 19

Hippocampus

Answer 19

Role in learning and memory processing

Long term memory

Damage can cause anterograde or retrograde amnesia

Question 20

Cerebral cortex

Answer 20

Frontal
Partial
Temporal
occipital

Question 21

Frontal lobe

Answer 21

Executive functions

• prefrontal lobe: executive functions, impulse control and long term planning
• primary motor cortex- mirror functioning and voluntary movements
• brocas are- speech production

Question 22

Parietal lobe

Answer 22

Sensory cortex

Controls sensation of touch, pressure, temperature, and pain; orientation and manipulation

Question 23

Occupital lobe

Answer 23

Visual processing

Question 24

Temporal lobe

Answer 24

Sound processing - auditory cortex

• wenickes area: speech comprehension
• limbic system- memory and emotion

Question 25

Dominant hemisphere - left

Answer 25

Primary analytic | Language and logical math

Question 26

Non Dominant- right

Answer 26

Intuition, creativity, music cognition and spatial processing

Question 27

Sensory Neurons

Answer 27

Afferent (asend to the spinal chord)

Question 28

Motor neurons

Answer 28

Efferent (exit the spinal chord and transmit info to muscles and glands

Question 29

Interneurons

Answer 29

most abundant | Located in spinal chord and brain

Question 30

ipsilaterally

Answer 30

Brain communicates with same side

Question 31

Contralaterally

Answer 31

One side of the brain communicates with the other side

Question 32

Methods of brain mapping

Answer 32

Studying human and animal brain lesions Extirpation stimulating and recording with electrodes(EEG and rCBF)

Question 33

Corpus collosum

Answer 33

Connects and shares info between 2 hemispheres

Question 34

Dopamine is related with what disease

Answer 34

Scizo and parkinsons

Question 35

The nervous system develops throught

Answer 35

neurulation where the notochord stimulates the overlying ectoderm to fold over creating neural tube topped with neural crest cells

Question 36

Neural tube

Answer 36

Becomes central nervous system

Question 37

Neural crest

Answer 37

Spread throughout body to dif. tissues

Question 38

Rooting reflex

Answer 38

Infant turns its head to anything that brushes his cheek

Question 39

Moro reflex

Answer 39

Infant extends the arms then slowly retracts them and cries in response to sensation of falling

Question 40

Babinski reflex

Answer 40

Big toe is extended and the other toes fan in response to the brushing of the sole of the foot

Question 41

catecholamines

Answer 41

epinephrine (adrenalin), norepinephrine, and dopamine. Catecholamines are more often measured with a urine test than with a blood test.