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Parietal Lobes

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Preception, touch, body position

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Frontal Lobes

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Speaking, muscle movement, plans, judgement

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Occipital lobes

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Receives info from visual fields

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Temporal Lobes

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Auditory areas

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Medulla

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Involuntary movement, heart beat, breathing

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Pons

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Sleep, respiration, bladder control, swallowing, hearing, equilibrium, taste, eye movement, facial expression, sensation posture.

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Reticular Formation

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Controlling arousal

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Substantia nigra

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Reward, addiction, movement

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Superior colliclus

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Motor, eye movement, behavioral responses, body-centric

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Inferior colliclus

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Vocalization, chewing, respiration

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Midbrain

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Vision, hearing, motor control, sleep wake, arousal, temperature regulation

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Cerebellum

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Posture, fine motor movements, balancd

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Basal ganglia

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Voluntary motor control, habits

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Caudate Nucleus

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Learning & memory system

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Hippocampus

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Memory

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Hypothalamus

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Maintenance direction - eating, temperature control

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Thalamus

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Sensory perception, regulation of motor movements

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Amygdala

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Emotions

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Cingulate Gyrus

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Motor functioning, learning, memory

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Pituitary gland

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Endocrine gland control, hormones, growth

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Olfactory bulb

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Sense of smell

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Nucleus accumbens

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Pleasure, emotional intelligence, laughter, reward, reinforcement, aggression, motivation, addiction

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Cerebrem

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All voluntary action

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Broca’s area

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Speech production

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Wernicke’s area

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Understanding speech

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Prefrontal cortex

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Complex cognitive behavior

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Motor cortex

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Voluntary movement

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Somatosensory cortex

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Processes touch and movement

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Visual cortex

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Vision

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Auditory cortex

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Hearing

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Dopamine

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Motor cortex, prefrontal cortex, frontal lobes, substantia nigra, amydgdala.

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Norepinephrine

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Cognitive vs arousal state in prefrontal cortex, concentration, amygdala - fight-or-flight, cyngulate gyrus, cerebellum, hippocampus, hypothalamus

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Seratonin

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Occipital Lobes

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Acetylcholine

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Parietal lobes

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Glutamate

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Reticular formation, wernicke’s area, broca’s area, somatosensory cortex, visual cortex auditory cortex

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