Nervous System - Brain Functions

Question 1

frontal lobe

Answer 1

personality expression and the planning of complex cognitive behaviors: planning, reasoning, judgment, impulse control, memory, language and speech, voluntary muscle movement

Question 2

parietal lobe

Answer 2

processing of sensory information, understanding spatial orientation and body awareness i.e. proprioception

Question 3

occipital lobe

Answer 3

visual perception, colour recognition, reading comprehension, depth perception, recognition of object movement

Question 4

temporal lobe

Answer 4

hearing, memory, speech, language comprehension, emotional responses, visual perception, facial recognition

Question 5

What two critical structures are located in the diencephalon?

Answer 5

thalamus & hypothalamus

Question 6

functions of thalamus

Answer 6

motor control, receives auditory, somatosensory, and visual sensory signals, relays sensory signals to the cerebral cortex , memory formation and emotional expression, pain perception, controls sleep and awake states

Question 7

functions of hypothalamus

Answer 7

autonomic function control, endocrine function control, homeostasis, motor function control, food and water intake regulation, governs sleep-wake cycle

Question 8

4. What two structures comprise the brain stem?

Answer 8

pons & medulla (oblongata)

Question 9

functions of pons

Answer 9

arousal, autonomic function, breathing regulation, relaying sensory information between cerebrum and cerebellum, sleep

Question 10

functions of medulla (oblongata)

Answer 10

control of autonomic functions, relay of nerve signals between brain and spinal cord, coordination of body movements, regulation of mood

Question 11

The lower of the two structures contained within the brain stem has three critical centers that govern functions essential to life. What are these centers called and what is each of them responsible for maintaining?

Answer 11

1. breathing center – regulates ability to breathe
2. cardiac center – regulates heart rate and rhythm
3. vasomotor center – regulates blood pressure

Question 12

apathy

Answer 12

lack of feeling or emotion; lack of interest in life activities

Question 13

vertigo

Answer 13

dizziness

Question 14

anesthesia

Answer 14

literally “without feeling”, loss of sensation with or without loss of consciousness

Question 15

labile

Answer 15

characterized by wide fluctuations in mood and behaviours