injuries to head & spine

Question 1

functions of:

1. frontal lobe
2. parietal
3. occipital lobe
4. temporal
5. broca’s area
6. gnostic area
7. gustatory area
8. wernicke’s area
9. insula

Answer 1

1. personality, behavior, emotion, intellectual functions
2. sensation
3. vision
4. hearing, smell
5. motor speech (in frontal lobe)
6. stores complex memory patterns (temporal lobe)
7. taste (parietal)
8. language comprehension (temporal/parietal)
9. visceral effects

Question 2

brainstem

Answer 2

• Made up of bundles and tracts of nerves traveling down to spinal cord from cerebrum
• Controls muscles of eyes and iris, breathing, etc.
• Communicates by cranial nerves

Question 3

Injuries of the spine

• compression
• flexion
• extension (whiplash)

Answer 3

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