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What makes up the central nervous system

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Brain and spinal cord

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CNS is bathed in what nutrition

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Cerebrospinal fluid

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Where is the brainstem and CNS

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The lower part of the brain extending toward the spinal cord

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What are the structures of the brain stem

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The medulla, pons, midbrain, cerebellum

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Control survival

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The medulla

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Roll in arousal, is crossover point for sensory motor

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The ponds

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Sensory relay and houses part of the reticular formation

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Midbrain

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Is used for motor coordination and balance often lost in boxers

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The cerebellum

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The limbic system consists of what

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Hypothalamus, Thalamus, hippocampus, amigdala, basal ganglia

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In the limbic system it is in control of human behaviors eating, fighting fleeing and sexual behavior

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Hypothalamus

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In the limbic system it relays for incoming sensory information visual, olfactory, auditory input,

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The thalamus

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It is in charge of storage of new

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hippocampus

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Connects learning experiences to emotional responses for example fear and

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Amygdala

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the system of subcortical structures crucial for planning and producing movement also including the substantia nigra and nucleus

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The basal ganglia

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The forebrain consists of what

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Two cerebral hemispheres, right and left. The cerebral cortex and the Corpus Callosum

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What are the four lobes of the cerebral

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Occipital lobe, parietal lobe, frontal lobe, and temporal lobe

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The lobe responsible for visual cortex

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Occipital lobe

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Somatosensory cortex, touch, spatial relations

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Parietal lobe

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Primary auditory cortex– left side is language and auditory process, hearing and memory

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Temporal lobe

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Middle of the brain that connects both hemispheres

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The corpus callosum

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Broca’s area

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Language production, resulting in aphasia

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Wernicke’s area

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Affects comprehension of written or spoken language, patient can hear and but cannot read or understand

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Made up of all the nerves that lie outside the brain and spinal cord comprised of the somatic and autonomic nervous

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Peripheral nervous system and endocrine systems

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In charge of walking running and skeletal movement connected to voluntary movement and saucer sensory receptors

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Somatic nervous system

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The afferent nerve fiber

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Sensory outward in

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The efferent nerve fiber

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Motor, inward out

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The system in charge of sweating, nerves that connect to the heart, blood vessels and glands controls all involuntary functions as in Organ function

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The autonomic nervous system

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Expanse energy, fight or flight, prepares the body for action

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Sympathetic

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Conserves energy, returns body to resting state

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Parasympathetic

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Glands that secrete chemicals into the bloodstream influencing sauce and

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Part of the endocrine system

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The endocrine system is controlled by what

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The central nervous system through the hypothalamus

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The master gland of the endocrine

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Pituitary

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Controls motivation and regulates body

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Hypothalamus

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Governs release of hormones

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Pituitary

35
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Controls how body Burns energy

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The thyroid

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Maintains calcium levels

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Parathyroid

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Governs the immune system

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Thymus

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Governs the immune system

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Adrenal gland

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Controls digestion

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Pancreas

40
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Influences reproduction in females

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The ovary

41
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Influences reproduction in males

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The testes

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