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Hindbrain structures

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Pons, Medulla Oblongata, Reticular formation, cranial nerves, cerebellum

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Medulla Oblongata

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Respiration, blood pressure, vomiting, swallowing

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Reticular formation

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Levels of arousal participate in sleep, suppression of this results in anesthetic effect

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Metencephalon

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Ascending descending tracks from the periphery contains pons and cerebellum

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Midbrain structures

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AKA, Mesencephalon; contains Tectum (colliculi), Tegmentum, cerebral pundicles

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Tectum

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Superior colliculi, sight. inferior colliculi, sound .

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Tegmentum

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Periaqueductal gray (produces endogenous opiates), Substania nigra (produces dopamine), Red nucleus (responsible for motor behavior)

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Forebrain

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Diencephalon, Thalamus, hypothalamus, telencephalon

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Thalamus

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all sensory info except smell, refines sensory info before sending it to the cortexl. thalamus is an essential component of attention. Damage at thalamic level = difficulty maintaining arousal, damage at cortex = twilight state (eyes open) cannot track objects.

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Functional pluripotentiality

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brain regions can perform novel functions, think of the ferets with a visual temporal lobe or the sensation of an amputy feeling their hand on their face

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Single dissociation

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damage in brain structure A produces disfunction in ability X, and not Y

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Double dissociation

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damage in brain structure A produces disfunction in ability X, and not Y. Damage in brain structure B produces disfunction in ability Y but not X

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Disconnection syndrome

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Disfunction associated with an inability of one part of the brain to communicate with another, likely due to lesions of connecting fibers. Think frontal lobe related deficits in a patient with a perfectly intact frontal lobe

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Primary sensory area

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recieves processes and stores sensory/basic psychophysical information. most specified in construction (less complex)

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Secondary area (association cortex)

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recieves info from primary area, organizes and interprets information. Visual, somatosensory, auditory

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Tertiary area

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recieves info from secondary area. Integrates different sensory information, supramodel areas, frontal lobes (maybe the angular gyrus)

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Progressive lateralization

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the higher order the function the more lateralized it is: language

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Sensory higherarchial sequence

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primary-secondary-tertiary (challenge to model, parrallel processing at all points)

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Motor higherarchial sequence

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tertiary-secondary-primary (challenge to model, parrallel processing at all points)

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Astrocytes

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scaffolding, blood brain barrier, guide neural migration

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Hypothalamus

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regulates basic functions like thirst, hungry, sex. comprised of: , lateral hypothalamus, ventromedial hypothalamus. connected to the pituitary gland via the infundibulum

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Lateral hypothalamus

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reward center, reacts to eating novel food

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ventromedial hypothalamus

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stops us from eatig food, antagonal relationship with LH

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telencephalon

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composed of; limbic system, cerebal cortex, basal ganglia, olfactory buld

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lateral sulcus
AKA sylvian fissure, seperates the frontal and part of the parietal lobe from the temporal lobe
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central sulcus
ALA sulcus of Rolando, seperates the pre&post central gyri or motor and somatosensory cortex respectively
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Basal ganglia
caudate nucleus, lenticular nucleus, Substania nigra, subthalamic nucleus, internal capsule, corona radiata
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caudate nucleas
C-shaped structure with a wide head attached to the putamen, tapering bpody, somtimes called the genu and a tail that terminates in a connection with the amygdala
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Lenticular nucleus
putamen, globus pallidus
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internal capsule
V-shaped when brain is cut horizontally, seperate thalamus from globus palidus and those stuctures from the head of the cudate nucleaus. A whit matter fiber bundle.
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Corona radiate
the fanning white matter projections from the internal capsule to the cortex
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Corpus striatum
(striped body)basal ganglia = internal capsul, subthalamic nuclei-treatment for parkinson's or motor abnormalities involve electrode stimulation of this area.
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Association fiber
U shaped fibers connecting on area of cortex to another
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Projectiong fiber
connections running from subcortical to cortical structures
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amterior commisure
white matter track that connects the temporal lobes
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association fibers
white matter fibers within one hemisphere (ipsilateral fibers) ie; short (ushaped fibers) long association fibers such as the; arcuate fasciculus and longitudinal fasciculus
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Arcuate fasciculus
long association fiber connecting broca's area to wernikie's area
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when is the hippocampus formed
during the second trimester of pregnancy
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Hippocampus is comprised of
four layers; CA1-CA4, sibiculum, dentate gyrus, parahippocampal gyrus, two C-shaped structures that interlock with each other: ammons horn and CA1-CA4
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when the brain is deprive of oxygen, such as when a babies head is compressed this area is likely damaged
CA1 of the hippocampus
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Sibiculum
filters out irrelavent information, functions differently in people with schizophrenia
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Parahippocampal gyrus
filters infor before it enters hippocampus, damage results in memory problems
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Kluver-Bucy syndrome is associated with lesions of
both amygdalie
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Kulver bucy symptoms
losses sense of social higherarchy, pica, no fear response
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Amygdala functions
paints memory, rapid face recognition, hedonic impulses: eating, social behaviors, sex agression
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amygdala stimulation results in
Hallucinations, vague sensory sensations, emotioms, deja vu, strage experiences such as depersonalization or psychotic symptoms
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ablation of amygdala results in
agression is harder to provoke, its suggested one has more control of emotions and increased ability to concentrate
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structures of the limbic system
Hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus, septum, cingulate gyrus, thalamus, fornix
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limbic system
primitive brain, inhibited by cortex but over rides primitive impulses from the brain stem, ability to hold images of reward/punishment, significant conections to frontal cortex
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septum pellucidum
runs as a sheet from the corpus callosum to the fornix, seperates the anterior horns of the left and right ventricals
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fornix
bundle of fibers, mostly outgoing fibers from the hippocampus
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what are the three kinds of hydrocephalus
communicating, noncommunicating, normal preassure
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communicating hydrocephalus
the flow of CSF is blocked after it exits the ventricles, that it can exit the ventricles is what makes it communicating
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Noncommunicating hydrocephalus
bmost common, blockage between the ventricles or in one of the aquaducts
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Normal preassure hydrocephalus
build up of CSF causes enlargment of the ventricles resulting in preassure on the structures of the brain. no headache, urinary incontenance, gait abnormalities
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lateral ventricles
comprised of; anterior horn, body, atrium, posterior horn, and inferior horn. drains into the third ventricle via the interventricular foramen
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3rd ventricle
midline in diencephalon, drains into the cerebal aqueduct
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4th ventricle
in between cerebellum, pons and medulla, narrows into the central canal
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4th ventricle apertures
median aperture (aka foramen of magendia), two lateral apertures (AKA foramina of luschka)drains CSF from the 4th ventricle into the cisterna magna and pontine cistern
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arachnoid villi
arachnoid matter protrusions into the dural venous sinuses that allow CSF to flow into the blood
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arachnoid granulations
larger villi
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epidural space
pathological condition wherein dura becomes detached from the skill and blood seeps into the space epidural hematoma
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Subdural space
pathological condition wherein arachnoid layer becomes detached from dura resulting in a subdural hematoma
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space occupying lesions
physical leasion that puts pressure on brain: hematoma, tumor, meningioma

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