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Brain Vocabulary Flashcards

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Frontal lobe

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Motor function, higher level thinking & speech

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Parietal lobe

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Sensory processing & speech and language processing

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Temporal lobe

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Hearing and smell

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Primary motor area

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Major motor function

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Diencephalon

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Houses thalamus and hypothalamus

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Primary sensory area

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Processes major senses

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Brain stem

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Contains pons, midbrain, medulla, connects brain to the spinal cord and controls some of ANS

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Cerebral hemisphere

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Houses the four lobes

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Cerebellum

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Matches intention with function & controls balance

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Medulla

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Merges with spinal cord and controls major ANS functions suck as breathing, heartbeat and vomiting

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Occipital lobe

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Vision

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Pons

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Bridge for spinal tracts into brain

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Cerebral aqueduct

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Connects 3rd and 4th ventricle

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Cerebral peducle

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Tracts for impulses in and out of spinal cord

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Choroid plexus

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Located in epithalamus and produces cerebral spinal fluid

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Corpus callosum

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Connects left and right hemispheres

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Corpora quadrigemina

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Visual and auditory reflex center

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Fourth ventricle

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Cerebral spinal fluid filled space, formed from neural tube

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Mammillary body

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Part of hypothalamus that controls smell

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Medulla oblongata

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Part of brain stem that connects to spinal cord (posterior) and mid brain (anterior) and controls some ANS function

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Hypothalamus

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Regulate temperature and metabolism; helps maintain homeostasis, controls hormones, processes smell and houses limbic system

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Pineal body

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Part of epithalamus, makes hormones & contributes to ANS function

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Pituitary gland

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Part of hypothalamus and controls hormones

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Pons

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Bridge between midbrain and medulla oblongata; part of brain stem

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Thalamus

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Encloses 3rd ventricle and processes sensory information & send it to the correct brain region

Honors Anatomy & Physiology (5 decks)

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