Mod 8 Flashcards
Medulla
The first swell and in. Charge of basic life support functions. Injuring this could lead to death
Breathing, circulation, swallowing
Brainstem
Most basic part of the brain. Where spinal. Cord swells and becomes the brain.
A blossoming rose
Reticular information
A nerve network in the brain stem that is important in controlling wakefulness and arousal
Almost like a battery
Thalamus
Incoming fibers of all senses come and are distributed to the proper regions of the brain
Switchboard or telephone operator
Cerebellum
Helps coordinate balance and voluntary movement
Like the wheels and pedals on a bike
Case study
Studying in depth one person or situation
Studying one student in a library
Computerized Axial Tomography
Photographs taken at different angles and combined by a computer into a composite representation of a slice through the body.
A 3d image created
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce a computer generated images that distinguish among different types of soft tissue
A sensor of some sort
Electroencephologram
Amplified recording if the waves of electrical activity that go across the brains surface
Earthquake reader
Positron Emission Tomography
A visual display of brain activity that detects where a radioactive form of glucose goes while the brain performs a given task
Watching a heartbeat quicken while someone watches a scary movie
Lambic System
Ring of structures forms the border between the older core regions and the newer ones
Layers of scale developing on a snake
Hypothalamus
Helps regulate many of body’s important functions like hungry or thirsts and the fight or flight response to a situation
The decision maker
Hippocampus
Processes new memories
Like a compute that has gathered new information
Amygdala
Controls emotional responses
Almond shaped
Cerebral cortex
Ultimate control and information processing center.
Glove that coves the parts of the brain
Longitudinal fissure
Divides the brain into two halves
The crack in the brain
Corpus Callosum
Neural fibers that connect the two halves of the brain together
A telephone wire
Frontal lobes
Enable more advanced cognitive thinking. Making plans and judgments.
Then leader of the brain
Parietal lobes
For general processing and mathematical reasoning
A computer
Occipital lobes
Visual processing area.
You see with the back of your brain
Temporal lobes
Sound information is processed here
Like a radio
Motor cortex
In charge of movement of body parts
Like a person controlling a puppet on strings
Somatosensory cortex
Registers and processes body sensations
When your foot is asleep
Broca’s area
Directs muscle movement involved in speech
The “mouth” of the brain
Wernicke’s area
Language comprehension and expression
Learning a new language such as Spanish
Plasticity
The brains capacity for modification
How much the brain can change, evolve, and improve itself
