Unit 1 - LAA4 - Neuroanatomy

Question 1

What kind of awareness does the brain provide?

Answer 1

conscious

Question 2

The brain is involved in what kind of processes?

Answer 2

All psychological

Question 3

What type of neurons is the brain made up of a vast number of?

Answer 3

Interconnected neurons

Question 4

What is the brain separated into?

Answer 4

two halves

Question 5

What are the two half of the brain referred to as?

Answer 5

Hemispheres

Question 6

Where does the brain receive info from and why?

Answer 6

From various sensory organs to give information about the body

Question 7

What is meant by localisation of function?

Answer 7

Specific areas of the brain have specific jobs/functions

Question 8

What is meant by lateralisation of function?

Answer 8

Brain is split into two halves, left and right. Each hemisphere has a different function.

Question 9

What is the corpus collosum?

Answer 9

collection of nerve cells that connects the two hemispheres

Question 10

What are the names of the 4 lobes in the brain?

Answer 10

Frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal

Question 11

What is the frontal lobe responsible for?

Answer 11

thinking, decision making and logic. It is also a language centre, including Broca’s area which controls the production of speech.

Question 12

What is the parietal lobe responsible for?

Answer 12

For combining all of the information from the senses, important for helping us understand the world around us and spatial navigation.

Question 13

What is the occipital lobe responsible for?

Answer 13

Vision - our eyes have a direct link to this area of the brain as this processes visual info.

Question 14

What is our temporal lobe responsible for?

Answer 14

This processes auditory information as it is situated right behind the ears.

Question 15

What brain region is in the temporal lobe and what is it’s function?

Answer 15

Wernicke’s area which controls our ability to understand language.

Question 16

Why is the brain stem one of the most important regions in our brain?

Answer 16

It is responsible for involuntary functions like our heartbeat, breathing, and our consciousness.

Question 17

What does the spinal cord do?

Answer 17

Connects the brain to the rest of the body and transfers messages between them

Question 18

What is meant by plasticity?

Answer 18

The brains biological, chemical and physical ability to recognise it’s structure and function. This can occur due to learning, experience, memory formation or brain damage.

Question 19

What is synaptic pruning?

Answer 19

Where as neurons develop we build synaptic connections. As we get older these connections are either deleted or strengthened.

Question 20

Why is the biological approach reductionist?

Answer 20

It reduces behaviour down to 4 lobes in the brain.

Question 21

Which hemisphere in the brain is responsible for what function?

Answer 21

Left for language, Right for creativity.