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Parietal lobe

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Receive and identify sensory info, concept formation, and abstraction proprioception and body awareness, reading, math, right and left orientation

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Occipital lobe

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Interprets visual images, visual associations, visual memories, involved with language formation

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Temporal lobe

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Language comprehension, stores sounds to memory (language speech), connects with limbic system to allow expression of emotions

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Frontal lobe

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Formulate or select goals, initiate, plan, and terminate actions, decision making, insight, motivation, social judgement, voluntary motor ability starts in the frontal lobe

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Midbrain

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Pupillary reflex and eye movement

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Pons

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Major processing station in auditory pathways

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Medulla oblongata

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Reflex center controls:
Balance, heart rate, rate and depth of respirations, coughing, swallowing, sneezing, maintaining bp, vomiting

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Cerebellum

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Regulates skeletal muscle coordination and contraction, maintains equilibrium

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Cerebellum

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Regulates skeletal muscle coordination and contraction, maintains equilibrium

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Cerebellum

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Regulates skeletal muscle coordination and contraction, maintains equilibrium

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Dopamine (mono)

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Decrease: Parkinson’s disease, depression
Increase: schizophrenia

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Norepinephrine (mono)

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Decrease: depression
Increase: mania, anxiety, schizophrenia

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Serotonin (mono)

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Decrease: depression
Increase: anxiety states

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Histamine (mono)

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Decrease: sedation, weight gain

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Gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) (Amino)

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Decrease: mania, anxiety, schizophrenia
Increase: reduction of anxiety

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Glutamate (Amino)

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Decrease NMDA: psychosis
Increase NMDA: neurotoxicity, neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease
Increase AMPA: Improve cognitive performance in behavioral tasks

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Acetylcholine (cholinergics)

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Increase: depression
Decrease: Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington chorea, Parkinson’s disease

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Substance P (peptides)

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Regulation of mood and anxiety
Role in pain management

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Somatostatin (peptides)

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Decrease: Alzheimer’s disease, decreased levels of SRIF in spinal fluid of some depressed pts
Increase: Huntington chorea

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Neurotensin

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Decreased levels of spinal fluid of patients with schizophrenia

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