introduction Flashcards
Frontal cortex
to take decisions
Parietal cortex
senses and touching
occipital cortex
vision
temporal lobe
hearing
cerebellum
voluntary movements
hippocampus
learning, memory, emotions
sides of hemisphere
RIGHT part of the spinal cord communicates with LEFT part of cerebral hemisphere but with the RIGHT part of the body
brainstem
midbrain > pons > medulla oblongata
for basic functions and sensory/motor nerves
thalamus
sorts data and information
hypothalamus
important for thermoregulation
pituitary gland
hormonal activity; water balance and oxytocin release
cerebrum
integration, composed of a lot of neurons and connections, myelinated (white matter)
MRI
measures cortical thickness, changes in blood flow, and brain activity
DTI, diffusion tensor imaging
measures movement of water in brain and the amount of fibers present.
corpus collosum
connects the right hemisphere and left hemisphere
basal ganglia
involuntary movements
substantia negria
for dopamine production, composed of dopaminergic neurons
damaged in parkinsons
dopamine pathways
tubero-hypophyseal pathway
mesocortical pathway
mesolymbic pathway
nigrostriatal pathway
dorsal function
afferent sensory root of spinal nerve
cerebral generation of behavioral output
ventral function
efferent motor of spinal nerve
cerebral generation of behavioral output
cerebral cortex and dorsal thalamus
processing sensory input
planning and executing behavior
subcortex
recognition and memory formation
brain cells
astrocytes; main components
microglia; to remove cell debris and perform phagocytosis
oligodendrites; produce myelin, in CNS
neurons;
multiple sclerosis
chronic progressive disease, damaging myelin sheets of nerve cells in brain and spinal cord
