Unit 3: Brain Structure Flashcards
What is the autonomic nervous system?
The autonomic nervous system consists of the parasympathetic and sympathetic branches of the nervous system and is responsible for the communication between the body’s nonskeletal (visceral) muscles and the internal organs.
What does the central nervous system consist of?
Brain and spinal cord
What is the cerebral cortex?
The cerebral cortex is the outer layer of brain. Location of higher mental processes and complex behaviours.
What is the corpus callosum?
The corpus callosum in the thick band of about 200 million nerve fibres connecting the left and right hemispheres.
What is the frontal lobe?
The frontal lobe is the largest love of the brain. It has several functions, including initiating movement of the body, language, planning, judgement, problem solving, aspects of personality and emotions. It is extremely well developed in higher mammals. It contains the primary motor cortex and Broca’s area.
What is the occipital lobe?
The occipital lobe is the section of the cerebral cortex at the rear of the brain.nit is the location of the primary visual cortex and association areas involved with integration of visual stimuli.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
The parasympathetic nervous system is a branch of the autonomic nervous system, responsible for maintaining our day-to-day functioning and for most of the automatic functions of the body such as digestion, heart rate, breathing and some glandular functions.
What is the parietal lobe?
The parietal lobe is the location of the primary somatosensory cortex in the brain. The parietal lobes enable a person to perceive their own body and to perceive where things are located in their immediate environment.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
The peripheral nervous system communicates information from the body to the central nervous system (for example aches and pains) and to the body’s organs, glands and muscles.
What is the primary auditory cortex?
The primary auditory cortex is located in the upper part of the temporal lobe and receives sounds from the ears.
What is the primary motor cortex?
The primary motor cortex is located at the rear of each frontal lobe and is responsible for movement of the skeletal muscles of the body.
What is the primary somatosensory cortex?
The primary somatosensory cortex is located at the front of each parietal lobe and processes sensations such as touch, pressure, temperature and pain from the body.
What is the primary visual cortex?
The primary visual cortex is located in the occipital lobe and processes information from the eyes.
What is the somatic nervous system?
The somatic nervous system is the division of the peripheral nervous system the carries sensory information into the central nervous system, and also carries motor commands from the central nervous system to the skeletal muscles.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
The sympathetic nervous system is a branch of the autonomic nervous system that activates the fight-or-flight response.
What is the temporal lobe?
The temporal lobe is the part of the forebrain beneath the temporal plate of the skull, at the side of the head above the ears. Contains Wernicke’s area and the primary auditory cortex.
