Structure and Function Flashcards
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Triune Brain
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- Paul McLeod developed in late 1940s of the structures of the brain (not true)
- Survival Brain = reptillain
- Emotional Brain = Limbic
- Thinking Brain = Neo-corte
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Hindbrain
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- Primitive (earliest) level of the brain
- Continuation of brain and spinal cord
- Part of brainsteam: Imports vital functions
- Damage can be catastrophic as it supports life dependent functions
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Brainstem
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- Total of hindbrain and midbrain
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3 main structures of the Hindbrain
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- Medulla
- Pons
- Cerebellum
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Medulla
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- Vital role in supporting repiration and managing heart rate
- Part of the path for sensory and motor nerve tracks that come through the spinal cord from the brain
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Pons
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- Releases sensory information between the cerebral cortex and cerebellum
- Supports regulation of sleep and helps control respiration
- Huge problems if damaged
- Sits above Medulla
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Cerebellum
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- Involved in movement, learning and sequencing
- Physical damage can result in poor coordination and uncoordinated movements (walking can be problematic - movements you don’t have to consciously think about)
- Alcohol has been seen to cause temporary distruption
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What is this?
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Hindbrain
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Midbrain
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- Sensory and motor neurons running through it
- Involved in consciousness, sleep, attention
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4 main components of the Midbrain
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- Reticular Formation
- Superior Colliculus
- Inferior Colliculus
- Substantia Nigra
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Reticular Formation
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- Runs from the hindbrain to forebrain and has both sensory and motor ascending and descending fibres
- Taking in information and integrating it and also then sending information on
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Superior Colliculus
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- Deals with eye movements, saccadic eye movements, and for that reason, receives input from the retina and from the visual cortex
- Particularly important in fast eye movements, visual reflexes and visual field tracking.
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Inferior Colliculus
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- Synapsing point for sound that has both crossed and uncrossed auditory fibres.
- That then continous information into a part of the thalamus that is involved in processing auditory information.
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Substanita Nigra
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- Key part of the dopaminergic system that include control, movement and patterns of movement coordination.
- When there is disruption, you can see effects, for example, in Parkinson’s disease, where you can see the effects on motor coordination.
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Forebrain
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7 main components of the Forebrain
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- Thalamus
- Hypothalamus
- Hippocampus
- Amygdala
- Cingulate Cortex
- Limbic System
- Basal Ganglia
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Thalamus
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- Relay station for organising sensory information and routing them to further areas within the cortex
- Made up of a number of different nuclei (cluster/group of cell bodies)
- Damage/distruption in this area plays a role in hallucinations and schizophrenia
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3 components of the Thalamus
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- Lateral geniculate nuclei
- Medial geniculate nuclei
- Ventral posterior nuclei
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Lateral geniculate nuclei
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- Visual relay station
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Medial geniculate nuclei
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- Auditory relay station
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Ventral posterior nuclei
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- Somatosensory relay station
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Hypothalamus
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- Responsible for hormone secretion, relating to sexual development, sexual behaviour, metabolism and stress responses
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Hippocampus
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- Involved in memory
- Forming and retrieving memories - especially spatial learning
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Amygdala
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- Involved in emotional behaviours - e.g. fear, agression etc
- Involved in emotional responses, both with and without higher brain regions or the cortex being involved
- Sometimes linked with quick unconscious emotional responses
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Cingulate Cortex
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- Realetd to emotion, regulation of responses as part of motion and memory
- Anterior singular cortex - error detection in conflict monitoring
- Posterior cingulate cortex may be more involved in attention
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Main structures of Limbic System
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- Hoppocampus
- Amygdala
- Cingulate Cortex
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Basal Ganglia
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- Most important components:
- Caudata Nucleus
- Putamen
- Substantia Nigra
- Important in controlling movements, eye movements (such as posture, reaching and grasping), skill learning and rewards systems
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What is this?
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- Pons
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What is this?
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- Cerebellum
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What is this?
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- Brain Stem
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What is this?
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- Thalamus