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What procedures let you see brain activity?

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FMRI, PET scan and EEG

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what do spinal reflexes do?

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they are the sensory stimuli raised from respecters to the central nervous system.

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what are inter-nerves?

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the ones in between connecting the spinal cord and sensory nerves.

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what procedure measures the small changes in blood flow that occur with brain activity?

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FMRI (Function Magnetic Resonance)

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what does the left brain do?

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Language controls right side of the body

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what part of the lobe controls auditory processing, memory, language comprehension?

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Temporal lobe

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In the autonomic nervus system what do you call your body/brain calming down? This can include change in body temperature.

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Para-sympatric

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what is part of the forebrain that replays and filters information?

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Thalamus

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What part of the brain is the life life?

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Hindbrain

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what lobe part controls sensation, spelling, perdition, arithmetic?

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Parietal lobe

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what is part of the forebrain that is the master gland in the hormone producing system?

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primary gland

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what lobe part controls visual processing?

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occipital lobe

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what part of the brain is the most advanced and have complex reasoning?

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The Forebrain

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in the limbic system what regulates biological drives with the primary gland?

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Hypothalamus

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what is a test that detects abnormalities in your brain waves, or in the electrical activity of your brain. During the procedure, electrodes consisting of small metal discs with thin wires are pasted onto your scalp. The electrodes detect tiny electrical charges that result from the activity of your brain cells.

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EEG (Electroencephalograph)

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16
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what part of the hindbrain regulates motor skills?

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cerebellum

17
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what is part of the hind brain that is a bridge that connects the cortex that transfers information back and forth between the brain and spinal cord ?

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Pons

18
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what is part of the automatic nerve system that contains of nerves arising from the brain and lower end of the spinal cord and supplying organs, blood vessels, and glands?

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this is called parasympathetic

19
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what is the corpus callosum?

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the severing of the bridge that lets the 2 hemispheres not communicate.

20
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in the peripheral nervus system what controls the nerves and is involuntary movement?

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Antinomic has involuntary movement and somatic controls nerves.

21
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what are sensory respecters?

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a nerve ending that sends signals to the central nervous system

22
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what does the right brain do?

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is the creative side of your brain, controls the left side of your body

23
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what test uses strong magnetic fields to take pictures of the inside of the body

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MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

24
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what does the Medulla do and where is it located?

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a part of the brain that processes breathing, digestion, heart and blood vessel function, swallowing and sneezing. it is located in the hind brain.

25
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what does the word contralateral mean?

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opposite sides crossing over

26
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what part of the lobe controls judgment, movement, thoughts and behavior?

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Frontal lobe

27
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what is part of the forebrain that regulates body temperature, hunger, thirst and sexual behavior?

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Hypothalamus

28
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what is part of the midbrain that operates orients an organism?

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Tectum

29
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what is part of the forebrain that is the outermost gray matter of the cerebellum?

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Cerebral cortex

30
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what do you call the part of the brain that processes breathing, digestion, heart and blood vessel function, swallowing and sneezing?

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Medulla

31
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What is part of the mid brain that operates moment and arousal

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tegmentum

32
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what part of the brain is the communication center for the nerves?

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Midbrain

33
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in the limbic system what is involved with voluntary movement?

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Basil ganglia

34
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In the autonomic nervus system what do you call you fight or flight response?

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Sympathetic

35
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in the limbic system what is responsible for emotion and memory emotion?

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Amygdala

36
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what test uses an X-ray image made using a form of tomography in which a computer controls the motion of the X-ray source and detectors, processes the data, and produces the image.

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CT (Computed tomography)

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in the limbic system what is a nucleus inside the terminal lobeimplicated in learning and memory including new memory, integrating of memories (taking old memories and updating them?

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hippocampus

38
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what procedure in which a small amount of radioactive glucose (sugar) is injected into a vein, and a scanner is used to make detailed, computerized pictures of areas inside the body where the glucose is taken up?

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PET (Position Emission Topography)

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