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Week 3 Flashcards

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1
Q

Difference between contralateral and ispilateral?

A

Contralateral = info received from opposite side of body creates action on the other. left effects right, right effects left.

Ipsilateral = info received in brain from same side of body

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Where is the Anterior part of the brain?

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toward the front

Antlers (coming out of eyes)

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Where is the Posterior part of the brain?

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towards the back

think: Post/past

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Where is the medial part of the brain?

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middle

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Where is the Lateral part of the brain?

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Towards the sides

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Where is the dorsal part of the brain?

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Top front

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Where is the Ventral part of brain?

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towards the bottom

underbelly of the brain

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Transverse
Horizontal plane
Sagital plane

Analogies

A

Transverse - carrot chopping - through the middle from the top

Horizontal - Subway - cuts on side

Sagital - hot dog - cut through middle

carrot, subway, hotdog.

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What is a group of Axons in the CNS called?

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Tract

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What is a group of cell bodies in CNS called?

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Nucleus

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What is a group of axons in peripheral NS called?

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Nerve

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What is a group of cell bodies in PNS called?

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Ganglion

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what are the sulci (sulcus)?

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Valleys e.g. central sulcus
Fissures - Longitudinal, lateral

in brain

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What are the gyri (Gyrus)?

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Bumps of brain

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What is in the cerebral cortex? (whole brain/lobes)

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frontal lobe
Parietal Lobe
Temporal Lobe
Occipital Lobe

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What does the parietal lobe do?

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body sensations, primary somatosensory cortex

17
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What does the frontal lobe do?

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primary motor area, decision making process, speech production, planning, impulse control, motivation, inhibition

18
Q

What part of brain is speech production in?

A

Brocca’s area

19
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What does the temporal lobe responsible for?

A

primary auditory cortex, hearing, speech, comprehension, relay centre

20
Q

What is the occipital lobe responsible for?

A

Vision

21
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Where is the motor cortex located?

A

front, middle, cut like a carrot

22
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where is the somatosensory cortex located?

A

back, middle, cut like a carrot

23
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Where are the lateral ventricles?

A

middles, going out to the sides

24
Q

Which part of brain can be cut to treat epilepsy?

A

Corpus Collosum

25
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What does the corpus Collosum do?

A

relays info between hemispheres

26
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What does the anterior commissure do? And where is it located?

A

Connects the temporal lobes

located front middle

27
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what is the endocrine system responsible for?

A

hormone secretion

28
Q

What is the job of hypothamus?

A

feeding, fleeing, fighting and fucking

29
Q

what gland does the hypothalamus regulate?

A

The pituitary gland

30
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What does the pituitary gland look like? Where is it located?

A

Looks like a sack, just behind the nose

31
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What does the Pituitary gland do?

A

The master gland - produces hormones that influence secretions of the thyroid, pancreas, adrenals & gonads. Also secretes growth hormones

32
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What does the Thyroid do?

A

produces hormones that regulate metobolic rate

33
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What do the adrenal glands do?

A

Controls salt & carbohydrate metabolism, secretes hormones active in arousal & sleep

34
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What is the pancreas?

A

produces insulin & glucose to control sugar metabolism

35
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What are the gonads?

A

Ovaries & testes.

36
Q

In what system is the pituitary gland and what does it do?

A

In the Endocrine system -regulates a bunch of the hormone systems.

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