Brain Structures and Functions Flashcards by Nikki Akins

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Controls emotions

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Amygdala

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Speech formation

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Broca’s Area

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Connects brain hemispheres to one another

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Corpus Callosum

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Decision making, social behavior, memory

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Frontal Lobe

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Movement (Balance and Coordination)

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Cerebellum

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Body temperature, mood, blood pressure

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Hypothalamus

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Memory and Learning

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Hippocampus

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Blood pressure and heart beat

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Medulla Oblongata

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Protects brain and spinal cord

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Meninges

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Vision, hearing, motor skills

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Midbrain

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Processes visual information

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Occipital Lobe

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Controls senses

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Parietal Lobe

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Circadian rhythm

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Pineal gland

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Sleep/wake, sensory experiences

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Pons

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Attention, memory processing

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Prefrontal Area

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Growth, metabolism, hormones

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Pituitary Gland

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memory, language, emotion

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Putamen

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store and retrieve memories

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Temporal Lobe

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all sense except smell

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Thalamus

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understanding spoken and written language

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Wernicke’s Area