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Contains all the neural structures that are outside the brain and spinal cord

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Peripheral Nervous System PNS

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study has moved away from looking at specific/isolated areas and now to

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Networks

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PNS

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Contains all the neural structures that are outside the brain and spinal cord

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PNS has two functions

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Input functions- What is going on inside and outside the body
Output - enable response (via muscles and glands/ fight flight)

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Somatic Nervouse system

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Allows us to sense and respond to our environment

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Specialised neurons to transmit messages to the eyes/ears

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Sensory Neurons - Somatic Nervous system (peripheral)

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Neurons send messages from the brain and the spinal cord to muscles for voluntary movement

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Motor Neurons - Somatic Nervous system (peripheral)

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Senses the body’s function and controls glands and smooth (involuntary) muscles that form the heart, blood vessels and the lining of the stomach and intestines

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Autonomic Nervous System (Perpheral)

  • Contains sympathetic and Parasympathetic System within it
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Peripheral Nervous system includes

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Somatic Nervous System
Autonomic Nervous Stystem

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Autonomic Nervous system is divided into 2 systems

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sympathetic nervous system and
Parasympathetic nervous system

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Sympathetic Nervous System (part of Autonomic Nervous system)

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Activation and arousal (Fight / Flight) Increase heart rate Increase respiration, ready to address stressors

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Parasympathetic Nervous System (part of Autonomic Nervous system)

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Slows down the body, maintenance of homeostasis, internal equilibrium, rest and digest

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CNS

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Central Nervous System

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CNS involves the

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Brain and Spinal cord

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The CNS connects the —– with the peripheral nervous system

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brain

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A densley packed bundle of nerve fibres that transmits messages from sensory and motor neurons

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Spinal Cord

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If a hand is on a hot stove the incoming information coming from the skin receptors to say its hot is process by —– neurons and the outgoing information is processed by the —– neurons, to take the had off the stove

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sensory neurons, Motor neurons

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Trepanation

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Drilling holes in the skull to relieve pressure

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Which culture started to notice intelligence and sensation

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Greek - Hippocrates

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Early study of the brain and that different areas served different functions

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Phrenology (1757-1828) Franz Josef Gall

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The brain works in

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networks

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Lowes and most primitive level of the brain

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Hindbrain

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Part of the brain that supports vital life functions

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Brain stem

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Hindbrain component that manages HR, resp. vasomotor (blood pressure) and vomitting

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Medulla

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Hindbrain component that regulates sleep and carries nerve impulses between higher and lower levels of the Nervous system

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Pons

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Part of the Hindbrain that manages muscular movement and coordination, memory and learning (precise movements, affected by alcohol)

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Cerrebellum

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Part of the brain that contains clusters of sensory and motor nuerons

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Midbrain

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Alerts Higher centres of the brain that messages are coming

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Reticular formation (mid brain)

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Messages are either blocked or allowed by the (such as ignoring noise during sleep and waiting to go to the toilet)

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Reticular formation (midbrain)

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Part of the brain that allows the transmission between hindbrain and forebrain

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Midbrain

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Part of the brain that allows for some monitoring and some transmission, but more importantly, lack of transmission when relevant (ie sleeping)

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Midbrain

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The most evolutionary advanced part of the brain

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Forebrain

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Forebrain contains

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Cerebrum
Thalmus
Hypothalmus

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Hindbrain contains

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Brain stem - Medulla and pons
Cerebellum

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Midbrain

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Reticular Formation

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The major structure of te forebrain that wrap around the brain stem

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Cerebrum (two hemishperes)

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A switchboard that organises inputs from sesory organs and routes them to the appropriate areas

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Thalmus

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Motivation and emotion, sexual behaviour, temperature regulation, eating drinking and aggression are managed by this part of the brain

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Hypothalmus (connected to pituitary gland)

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What part of the brain is connected to the pituitary gland

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Hypothalmus

40
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The Hypothalmus is connected to which gland

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Pituitary

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The forebrain Contains the

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Cerebrum
Thalmus
Hypothalmus
Limbic system (Hippocampus & Amygdala)
Cerebral cortex
Motor cortex
sensory cortex

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System that coordinates behaviours needed to satisfy motivational and emotional urges (also concerns reward and punishment)

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Limbic System (forebrain

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Limbic System is made up of

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Hippocampus & Amygdala (forebrain)

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Hippocampus & Amygdala are part of the

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Limbic System (forbrain)

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Forms and retrieves memories, memory recording device

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Hippocampus (forebrain)

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Organises motivational and emotional response patterns, fear, disgust, avoidance behaviours

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Amygdala (forebrain)

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Unmyelinated cells that form the outermost layer of the brain

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Cerebral Cortex (forebrain)

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Cerebral Cortex

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Unmyelinated cells that form the outermost layer of the brain (forebrain)

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—-% of the cerebral cortex exists in the folds of the wrinkled surface.

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76

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How thick is the cerebral cortex

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1/4 inch (63mm)

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Four lobes of the cerebral cortex

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Frontal, Parietal, Temporal, occipital (forebrain)

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Contains 600+ muscles for voluntary body movement

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Motor Cortex (forbrain)

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Receives input from sensory receptors, heat touch etc

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Sensory Cortex (forbrain)

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The two sense that the most of the brain is allocated to

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Touch and Sight

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Primary motor cortex and Prefrontal cortex and Brocas area are all in the (lobe)

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Frontal Lobe (executive function, voluntary movement, higher order attentional decision making)

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Somatic sensory cortex is in the (lobe)

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Parietal Lobe (bodily sensation, memory)

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Primary Auditory cortex and wrneckes area (lobe)

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Temporal Lobe (auditory/memory)

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Primary visual cortex (lobe)

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Occipital lobe (visual processing)

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Lobe that is responsible for executive function, voluntary movement, higher order attentional decision making

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Frontal Lobe

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Lobe that manages bodily sensation, memory

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Parietal Lobe

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Lobe that manages auditory and memory

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Temporal Lobe

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Lobe that does all our visual processing

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Occipital Lobe

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Not lobes of the brain but very important components, that support the base of the brain

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Spinal Cord and brain stem

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Brocas Area

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Production of speech through its connections with the motor cortex regions, comtrol muscle movemnt for speech, expressive aphasia - now disproved that one area does one thing (speech network, not a specific place)

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Wernickes area

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Speech comprehension, Receptive aphasia

66
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a disorder that results from damage to portions of the brain that are responsible for language.

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Aphasia

67
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Located across the brain, anterior, limbic and posterior, often called the silent areas because stimulation does not cause spcific sensory or motor response

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The Association Cortex

68
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Involved in important mental functions including perception, language and problem solving

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The Association Cortex

69
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The inability to identify familiar objects

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Agnosia

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Selective inability to recognise familiar human faces

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Prosopagnosia

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Executive function is a large part of the

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prefrontal cortex

72
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Lateralisation

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Left and Right brain theory

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Brain hemisphere for Verbal abilities speech maths logical abilities , positive emotions arouse it

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Left Brain

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Brain Hemisphere for: Spatial relations, faces, mental imagery, musical and artistic ability more active when feeling negative

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Right Brain

75
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A neural bridge of myelinated neurons between the two hemispheres allows them to function as a single unit (strip of neurons)

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Corpus Callosum

76
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The production of new neurons in the nervous system

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neuro geneis

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Immature uncommitted cells that can mature into any type of neuron or glial cell

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