Lesson 3

Question 1

what is Agensies?

Answer 1

the failure of brain regions to develop, offers researchers an opportunity to study brain organization and function.
-symptoms are similar to early autistic symptoms

Question 2

How do patients with Agenisis improve?

Answer 2

Brain plasticity allows for compensation as regions of the cerebral cortex function more efficiently.

Question 3

What are adaptations?

Answer 3

Evolved anatomical/functional features that solved long-standing historical problems.

Question 4

What does brain plasticity mean?

Answer 4

Neural Tissue has the capacity to adapt to the world by changing how its functions are organized.
-neural connections constantly change in response to experience
-learning takes place when neural circuits change to store new knowledge

Question 5

what is neuroplacticity?

Answer 5

The nervous system’s potential to physically or chemically modify itself in response to environmental change and to compensate for age-related changes and injury.

Question 6

What is afferent information?

Answer 6

Incoming information to the CNS

Question 7

What is efferent information?

Answer 7

Outgoing information from the CNS

Question 8

Brain body orientation?

Answer 8

frame of reference is the human face

Question 9

spatital orientation?

Answer 9

from of reference is other body parts and body orientation

Question 10

Anatomical orientation?

Answer 10

frame of reference is direction of cut from viewers perspective

Question 11

Ipsilateral def?

Answer 11

structures lying on the same side of the brain