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Parts of brain and function Flashcards

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Amygdala

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Processing center for emotions

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Thalamus

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Sensory gateway for sight,sound,touch,taste

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Hypothalamus

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Body temp, heart rate and hunger hormones that control all these are produced

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Hippocampus

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Convert short term to long term memories

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Corpus callosum

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Left and right hemispheres main communication regulator

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Cerebellum

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Coordination of movement

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Pons

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Link body to spinal cord

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Medulla

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Controls vital process like heart beat

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Substansia nigra

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Control movements or helps

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Cerebral cortex include what

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Prefrontal
Primary motor
somasensory
visual
Fusiform
auditory
brocas
wernickes

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Prefrontal cortex

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Decision making
reasoning
personality expression
social appropriateness

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Primary motor cortex

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Encode direction of movements

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Primary somato sensory

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Primary receptor of general bodily sensation

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Primary visual cortex

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Ibtergrate Visual information

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Brocas

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regulates speech

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Wernickes

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Regulates information heard or text read understanding

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What are the lobes and their functions

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Frontal- Voluntary movements
-Cognitive
Parietal- Sensations- location awareness
Occipital- Distance and dept perception-memory formation
Temporal-process auditory info- encoding memory

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Fusiform face

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Facial recogmition

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Auditory

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Process sounds and music

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Midbrain

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Movement

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Forebrain and include what

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Motivation
-Cerebral
-Corpus
-Thalamus/hypo
-amygdala
-hippocampus

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Hindbrain and include what

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Survival, movements
-cerebellum
-pons
-medulla
-spinal cord

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Spinal cord

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brain to body/ body to brain communication

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