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Chapter 3: The Brain Flashcards

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Lymbic System

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Processes emotions, memory, smell.

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Hippocampus

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Part of Lymbic System: learning and memory

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Amygdala

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Part of the Lymbic System: our experience of emotion and tying emotional meaning to our memories. THINK ANGER. Takes over parasympathetic state. Fight or flight. FLIP YOUR LID.

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Hypothalamus

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Regulates homeostasis like body temp and appetite, blood pressure. Interface between nervous system and endocrine system. Regulates sexual motiation and behavior. HUNGRY
medulla is the bases of this, starting point, then those things go to the hypothalamus

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Occipital

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visual, back of brain/head area

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Parietal

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Behind frontal lobe. Processes bodies senses. Includes somatosensory cortex

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Somatosensory cortex

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PARIETAL LOBE: processes sensory information such as touch, temperature, pain. This is the thin line in the picture. The larger part on the body, the more realestate it takes up on the cortex.

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Temporal

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Side of head. Hearing, memory, emotion, some aspects of language.

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Frontal Lobe

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Thinking, reasoning, logic, motor control, emotion

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Midbrain

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Like a tiger. Sleep, wake cycle, arousal, alertness, motor activity. Contains lymbic system. Fight or flight.

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VTA

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Created in midbrain. Ventral tegmental area. Produces dopamine. Involved in mood, reward and addiction.

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Hind Brain

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Reptilian. Back of head. Looks like extension of spinal cord. Contains cerebellum, medulla, and PONS.

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Medulla

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HIND BRAIN: Controls autonomic nervous system: breathing, blood pressure, heart rate. Part of brain stem

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Brain stem

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HIND BRAIN: Medulla, PONS

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PONS

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HIND BRAIN: Connects the hindbrain to the rest of the brain. Regulates brain activity during sleep.

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Cerebellum

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HIND BRAIN: “Little brain” Important for procedural memory. Receives messages from the bodies muscles, tendons, joints, parts of the ear for balance, movement, and motorskills. WHERE MEMORY IS FOR PROCEDURAL TASKS LIKE WALKING AND BREATHING.

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Thalamus

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Part of Lymbic System: Operator. Sensory relay for the brain. All our senses (minus smell) go through here to other parts of the brain. THE DIRECTOR.

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Reticular Formation

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HIND BRAIN: Arousal, sleep/wake cycle, alertness, motor activity

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Left Brain

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speech, reasoning, thinking, language

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Right Brain

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Creativity, art, music

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