Chapter 3 Flashcards

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Peripheral Nervous System

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Divided into ANS and SNS

Made of cranial nerves and spinal nerves

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Autonomic Nervous System

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Communicates with internal organs and glands

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3
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Somatic Nervous System

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Communicates with sense organs and voluntary muscles

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What are the two divisions ANS ?

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Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system

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Sympathetic nervous system

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Help the body cope with demands like emotional stress and physical emegencies

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Parasympathetic Nervous system

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Slows the activity of most organs to conserve energy

calming

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7
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Nerve

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Bundle of axons

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8
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Forebrain

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Composed of the 2 hemispheres, the thalamus, and the hypothalamus

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9
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Longitudinal Fissure

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Separates the 2 hemispheres

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10
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Grey Matter

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Neuronal cell bodies

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11
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White matter

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myelinated axons

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12
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Lissencephaly

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gene linked brain malformation where folds are missing in cortex because neurons did not migrate properly during development

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13
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Frontal Lobe

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Control of movement

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14
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Motor Cortex

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controls voluntary movement

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15
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Broccas area

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Speech production

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16
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Prefrontal Cortex

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Involved in planning, impulse control, and decision making

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Lobotomy

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Surgical destruction of prefrontal cortex

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Parietal Lobe

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Important for body sensations, attention, perception, and spatial location

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Primary somatosensory cortex

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Processes skin senses, body position, and movement

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Association Areas

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combine info. from body senses and vision

21
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Central Nervous System

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Brain and spinal cord