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Week 6 Flashcards

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What are metabolites

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A substance necessary for living organisms to continue life

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What uses metabolites?

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The brain

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What is the “trunk” of the brain

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the brain stem

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what is the brain stem responsible for?

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many of our neural functions, such as regulating our breathing, heart rate, and digestion

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What does the cerebelum look like and what does it do?

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a little hump thing at the back bottom bit of the brain,
important to posture and coordinated movement, and language,

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What are the cerebral hemispheres responsible for? How many are there?

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responsible for cognitive abilities and conscious experience. 2: left and right

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What is the largest part of the brain?

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the cerebral hemispheres

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what is occipital lobe responsible for?

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vision

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what is temporal lobe responsible for?

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memory, multisensory integration

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what is parietal lobe responsible for?

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touch, temperature, pain, taste

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what is frontal lobe responsible for?

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motor planning, language, judgement, decision making

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what is in the parietal lobe?

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the primary somatosensory (body sensations) cortex

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Basal Ganglia

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Subcortical structures of the cerebral hemispheres involved in voluntary movement

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Where is the basal ganglia

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in the very center of the brain, a circle and then a long looped line

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What is the limbic system? What is it made up of?

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A loosely defined network of nuclei in the brain involved with learning and emotion, includes the amygdala, pituitary gland, thalamus, hypothalamus

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What are the 2 cerebral hemispheres connected by?

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the corpus callosum

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What is the corpus callosum?

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a bundle of white matter tract that allow the 2 hemispheres to talk to eachother

18
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What side of the body is the left hemisphere responsible for in terms of movement and sensations?

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the right side

19
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What side of the body is the right hemisphere responsible for in terms of movement and sensations?

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the left side

20
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what are the symptoms of a split brain patient?

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ppl who’s hemispheres are not connected

21
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What is gray matter composed of?

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the neuronal cell bodies

22
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what are the cell bodies in gray matter ?

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somas

23
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what are the somas in gray matter responsible for?

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metabolism and synthesizing proteins

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What is white matter composed of?

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the axons of the neurons, primarily the axons that are covered with a sheath of myelin

25
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What is converging evidence?

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similar findings reported from multiple studies using diff. methods

26
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What is transcranial magnetic stimulation?

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when a brief magnetic pulse is applied to the head that temporarily induces a weak electrical current that interferes with ongoing activity.

27
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What is functional magnetic resonance imaging

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a method that is used to assess changes in activity of tissue

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What does fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) measure?

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blood volume and blood flow, and from this we infer neural activity
the change in the concentration of oxygenated hemoglobin, which is known as theblood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal.

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What type of brain scan has the best temporal resolution?

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Electroencephalography (EEG)

30
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What is the peripheral nervous system?

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The part of the nervous system that is outside the brain and spinal cord.

31
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What is neural induction?

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A process that causes the formation of the neural tube

32
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What is the ectoderm?

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The outermost layer of a developing fetus

33
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What is the forebrain

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A part of the nervous system that contains the cerebral hemispheres, thalamus, and hypothalamus.

34
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What is Broco’s Area

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area of the brain associated with language production

35
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What are sulci?

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crevices/fissures in the brain

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