January 7th 2025 - Lecture #1 Flashcards
What Is Neuropsychology?
Is the study of how brain function affects human behavior, focusing on the connection between neural processes and cognitive abilities.
What Are Some Major Assumptions Made By Neuroscientists?
Neuroscientists assume that complex behaviours, such as perceptions, thoughts, and actions, are driven by physical processes in the central nervous system.
What Does Dorsal Equal?
Superior (top)
What Does Ventral Equal?
Inferior (bottom)
What Does Rostral Equal?
Anterior (front)
What Does Caudal Equal?
Posterior (back)
What Are The 2 Parts That Make Up The Nervous System?
The central Nervous System, and The Peripheral Nervous System
What Does The Central Nervous System Include?
Brain and spinal cord
What Makes Up The Peripheral Nervous System?
Neural tissue outside the CNS including:
- somatic nervous system
- autonomic nervous system
- and neutrons that receive sensory information or send signals to muscles
Somatic Nervous System
Handles sensory and motor functions
What Does The Autonomic Nervous System Do?
Controls involuntary functions, such as visceral organs and glands, regulating processes like heart rate, circulation, and digestion.
What Are The Brains 7 Main Subdivisions?
- Spinal Cord
- Medulla
- Pons
- Midbrain
- Cerebellum
- Diencephalon
- Cerebrum
What Does The Spinal Cord Do?
The spinal cord relays sensory and motor information between the brain and the body.
What does the dorsal region of the spinal cord do?
Receives sensory information from the body
What does the ventral region of the spinal cord do?
Carries motor information from the brain and sends it to the muscles
What does the medulla do?
Contains nuclei for the 12 cranial nerves
Plays a role in arousal and wakefulness
The crossing of motor and sensory pathways from one side of the body to the opposite.
What do the pons do?
- connects the cerebral cortex to the cerebellum via the cerebellar peduncle.
- contains nuclei for several of the 12 cranial nerves.
What does the superior olive do?
The superior olive in the pons is involved in processing hearing information.
