introduction

Question 1

Frontal cortex

Answer 1

to take decisions

Question 2

Parietal cortex

Answer 2

senses and touching

Question 3

occipital cortex

Answer 3

vision

Question 4

temporal lobe

Answer 4

hearing

Question 5

cerebellum

Answer 5

voluntary movements

Question 6

hippocampus

Answer 6

learning, memory, emotions

Question 7

sides of hemisphere

Answer 7

RIGHT part of the spinal cord communicates with LEFT part of cerebral hemisphere but with the RIGHT part of the body

Question 8

brainstem

Answer 8

midbrain > pons > medulla oblongata
for basic functions and sensory/motor nerves

Question 9

thalamus

Answer 9

sorts data and information

Question 10

hypothalamus

Answer 10

important for thermoregulation

Question 11

pituitary gland

Answer 11

hormonal activity; water balance and oxytocin release

Question 12

cerebrum

Answer 12

integration, composed of a lot of neurons and connections, myelinated (white matter)

Question 13

MRI

Answer 13

measures cortical thickness, changes in blood flow, and brain activity

Question 14

DTI, diffusion tensor imaging

Answer 14

measures movement of water in brain and the amount of fibers present.

Question 15

corpus collosum

Answer 15

connects the right hemisphere and left hemisphere

Question 16

basal ganglia

Answer 16

involuntary movements

Question 17

substantia negria

Answer 17

for dopamine production, composed of dopaminergic neurons
damaged in parkinsons

Question 18

dopamine pathways

Answer 18

tubero-hypophyseal pathway
mesocortical pathway
mesolymbic pathway
nigrostriatal pathway

Question 19

dorsal function

Answer 19

afferent sensory root of spinal nerve
cerebral generation of behavioral output

Question 20

ventral function

Answer 20

efferent motor of spinal nerve
cerebral generation of behavioral output

Question 21

cerebral cortex and dorsal thalamus

Answer 21

processing sensory input
planning and executing behavior

Question 22

subcortex

Answer 22

recognition and memory formation

Question 23

brain cells

Answer 23

astrocytes; main components
microglia; to remove cell debris and perform phagocytosis
oligodendrites; produce myelin, in CNS
neurons;

Question 24

multiple sclerosis

Answer 24

chronic progressive disease, damaging myelin sheets of nerve cells in brain and spinal cord