neuroanatonmy Flashcards
Central Nervous System
made up of
Brain
Spinal cord
Peripheral Nervous System
mae up of
Everything outside of the brain and spinal cord
Somatic division: voluntary movements examples
Sensory information from skin, muscles and joints.
Motor output to skeletal muscles
Autonomic division: involuntary movements
Sensory and motor communications with smooth muscle, cardiac muscle and glands
Three sub-systems of Autonomic division
Sympathetic system: fight or flight mobilization
Parasympathetic system: favors relaxed state
Enteric system: digestion
Phrenology
A pseudoscience based on F.J. Gall’s writings-but with a germ of the right idea.
what was correct in Phrenology
- That the mind resides in the brain. 2. That specific areas of the brain could have specific functions
The Gage Story helped us
much mental and behavioral activity could be generally ascribed to particular regions of the central nervous system
where did the pole go thru gages head
Main site of brain damage is thought to have been to the left frontal lobe of Mr. Gage’s cerebral cortex aymgdala
where is brocas area and what is it responsible for
speech articulation (can’t pronounce words) left hemisphere of his inferior frontal lobe
where is wernicke’s area and what is it responsible for
posterior left temporal lobe, language comprehension aspeaks fluently but nonsensically
