Neuroanatomy Summary Flashcards
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Sympathetic division
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- Fight-or-flight response
- Act to prepare the body for action in stressful situations, engaging all the organism’s resources to respond to threat
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Parasympathetic division
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- Maintaining normal functions
- Acts to calm the body after an emergency or stressful situation has ended
- Rest and digest
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Hindbrain
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The lowest and most primitive level of the brain
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Brainstem
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Spans the hindbrain and midbrain, hindbrain structures in the brainstem include the medulla and the pons; the brainstem supports a number of vital physiological functions
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Midbrain
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Contains clusters of sensory and motor neurons
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Forebrain
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The brain’s most recently evoled portion
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Cerebrum
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The most superior part of the forebrain, comprising the cerebral cortex and several more central structures
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Limbic system
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Helps coordinate the behaviours needed to satisfy the motivational and emotional urges that arise in the hypothalamus; it is also involved in memory
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Cerebral cortex
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0,63cm - thick sheet, consisting primarily of grey matter
