STRUCTURE OF THE BRAIN Flashcards
1
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What is the central core?
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-regulates our most primitive and involuntary behaviors such as breathing, sleeping and sneezing
-It regulates eating and drinking as well as the endocrine system in order to maintain homeostasis
-Homeostasis - the process the body maintains a constant physiological state
2
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What is the limbic system?
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- controls our emotions
- Contains structures such as the hippocampus; key roles in memory
3
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What is lateralization?
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the dominance of one hemisphere of the brain for particular physical and psychological functions
4
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What is the cerebrum?
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regulates our higher intellectual processes
Has an outer layer known as the cerebral cortex - appears grey because of the location of cell bodies “grey matter”
Each of our sensory systems sends messages to and from this cerebral cortex
