MAJOR BRAIN REGIONS Flashcards
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BRAIN STEM
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- breathing
- heart rate
- sleep
- wakefulness
2
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CEREBELLUM
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- balance
- coordination and timing of movements
- attention and emotion
3
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SUPERIOR COLLICULUS
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- orienting visual attention
4
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INFERIOR COLLICULUS
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- orienting auditory attention
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BASAL GANGLIA
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- involved in facilitating planned movements, skill learning, and integrating sensory and movement information with the brains reward system.
6
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LIMBIC SYSTEM
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- an integrated network involved in emotion and memory.
- its structures include the hypothalamus, hippocampus, and amygdala.
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AMYGDALA
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- facilitates memory information for emotional events, mediates fear responses and appears to play a role in recognizing and interpreting emotional stimuli, including facial expressions.
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HIPPOCAMPUS
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- is critical for learning and memory, particularly the formation of new memories.
9
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THALAMUS
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- a set of nuclei involved in relaying sensory information to different regions of the brain.
10
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FRONTAL LOBE
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- thought
- planning
- language
- movement
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PARIETAL LOBE
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- sensory processing
- bodily awareness
12
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OCCIPITAL LOPE
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- visual processing
13
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TEMPORAL LOBE
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- hearing
- object recognition and emotion
14
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CORPUS CALLOSUM
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- a collection of neural fibers connecting the two hemispheres.
15
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NEURPLASTICITY
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- the capacity of the brain to change and rewire itself based on individual experience.
