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Parts of the brain Flashcards

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Matter in the brain

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Grey matter
White matter

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Grey matter

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cell bodies

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White Matter

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Myelinated axons

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Magnetic resonance imagerying

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  • can be used for medical or research
  • makes high resolution structural images of any organ
  • can be used to follow functioning in the brain
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Saggital

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parraellel to the profile

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Cornol

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down the brain

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Divisons of the brain

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Hind Brain
Fore Brain
Mid Brain

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Hind Brain

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Coordinates information flow to and from the spinal cord

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Medualla

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Extension of the spinal cord
controls heart rate, respiration and circulation

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Reticular Formation

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regulates
- sleep/wake
- state of arousal

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Cerebellum

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Controls fine motor activity
Doesn’t initiate movements but refines them

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Pons

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Relays information from cerebellum to the rest of the brain

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How do we know this about the brain

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We find this out when people have damage to a certian point of the brian

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Cerebellar Ataxia

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  • damage to cerebellum
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Two sections of the midbrain

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Tegmentum
Tectum

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The Mid brain

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coordinates basic functions related to perception and action (controls basic functions)

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Tectum

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Responsible for spacial orientating

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Tegmentum

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related to movement - not deciding where or when to move
making action happen without thinking

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Substance Nigra

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part of the tegmentum
high levels of dopamine gives it dark colour
pale colour in parkinsons disease

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The Fore brain (subcortial)

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Thalamus Hippocampus
Basal Ganglia
Cerebal Cortex
Amygdala
Hypothalamus

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Basal Glanglia

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Plan initiaiton of intential movements
(decide which msucles need to move)

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Thalamus

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Relays and filters information from the senses to the cortex

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Limbic system

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things related to arousal and emotional processing

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Hypothalamus

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Part of Limbic system
regulates bodily functions
including the four f’s

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Pituitary gland

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Part of limbic system
regulates hormones

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Hippocampus

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part of the limbic system
creates and integrates new memroies
does not keep memories for long term storage

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Amygdala

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Part of limbic system
repsonds to novel things
emotional processing and memory - particulary fear emotion

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Cortex of the brian

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Outer foldy layer

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Parts of the brain folds

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Gyrus
Suculus

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Gyrus

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Outside bit we can see on fpoldy layer of cortex

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Sulcus

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Inside bits of the folds

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Forebrain has two hemispheres

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Left and Right

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Corpus Callosum

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The wide band of white matter
Connects the two hemisphere

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Four types of lobes in each hemisphere

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Frontal Lobe
Parietal Lobe
Occipital Lobe
Temporal Lobe

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Cerebro Spinal Fluid

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Liquid the brian floats in to provide shock absorption so we don’t get brain damage

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Ventricles

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Gaps in our brain that just have Cerebrp Spinal Fluid in them

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How do we know the functions of different cortex regions

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Neurosurgery brain stimulation

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Occipital Lobe

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Vision

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Temporal Lobe

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Somantic Knowledge
- semantic knowledge
- Word meanings
- Object identification
- Audition

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