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Gyrus

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Raised parts of the brain or grooves

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Sulcus

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Valley or Dip of grooves

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ventricles

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4 fluid filled cavitities of the brain

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meningies

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3 layers of tissue that lay over the brain

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Blood Brain Barrier

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used to deliver oxygen to the brain, a selective barrier

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White Matter

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Brain tissue made of axons, called a tract

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Corpus Collosum

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Attaches the left and right hemisphere

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Commisures

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small connections between hemispheres

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Gray Matter

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Made up of cell bodies

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Spinal Chord

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2 way communication center between PNS and CNS

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Brain Stem

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White matter in charge of motor and sensory nuclei

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Medula

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Cell bodies for cranial nerves

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Pons

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Cranial nerves and white matter

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Mid Brain

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Superior Colliculus for vision and hearing and the VTA

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reticular formation

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arousal and conciousness

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Diencephelon

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2 sections of the brain

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Thalamus

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Sensory relay

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Hypothalus

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Homostasis and regulation

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Cerebrum or Telencephalon

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The limbic system

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Basil Ganglia

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Motor area

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Cerebral Cortex

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4 lobes of the brain

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frontal Lobe

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Decision making, executive motor functions

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temporal lobe

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hearinng

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parietal lobe

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touch/sight

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occipital lobe

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vision

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cerebellum

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movement and error correction

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CAT Scan

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Low resolutions

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MRI

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Measures density

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EEG

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Measures activity, good temporal resolution, bad spacial

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fMRI

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Measures blood flow, good spacial, bad temporal

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Oligodendrocytes

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Myelin in the CNS make multiple sheaths

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Schwann cells

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Make myelin in the PNS, make one sheath

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Microglia

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Macrophage, clean PNS

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Astrocytes

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Create blood brain barrier, vasodilation and vasoconstriction, regulate cell environment

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Ependymal cells

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Make cerebral spinal fluid

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Satellite cells

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Regulate cell environment

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Radial glia

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Scaffold for neuron in migration

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Glutamate

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Excitatory

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GABA

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Inhibitory

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Dopamine

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Movement, control and reward

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Serotonin

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Sleep, arousal, mood

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Norepinephrine

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Stress/arousal

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