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27 Cards in this Set
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Frontal Lobe
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The lobe involved in planning of movements, recent memory
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temporal lobe
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The love involved in hearing, advanced visual processing
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parietal lobe
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the lobe involved in body sensations
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occipital lobe
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the lobe involved in vision
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cerebral cortex
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Involved in memory, perceptual awareness, attention, and consciousness
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Thalamus
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process and relay sensory information to the cerebral cortex
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Hypothalamus
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metabolic processes, regulate the ANS
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pons
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relay sensory information between the cerebellum and cerebrum
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medulla
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autonomic functions like breathing, blood pressure, swallowing
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Ventricles of the Forebrain
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Lateral and Third Ventricles
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Part of the Midbrain
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Cerebral Aqueduct
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Two divisions of the Hindbrain
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Metencephalon, myelencephalon
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Six divisions of the Telencephalon
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Cerebral cortex, major fissures, major gyri, four lobes, limbic system, basal ganglia
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Four parts of the Diencephalon
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thalamus, hypothalamus, optic chiasm, pituitary gland
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Two divisions of the Mesencephalon
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Tectum and Tegmentum
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Three structures in the Metencephalon
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Reticular formation, pons, cerebellum
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What do neurons do?
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Process information, sense environmental changes, communicate changes to other neurons, command body responses
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What do glia do?
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insulate, support, and nourish neurons
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What is the Nissl Stain?
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Facilitates the study of cytoarchitecture in the CNS
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Site of cellular respiration in the soma of a typical neuron
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Mitochondrion
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The internal scaffolding of the neuronal membrane
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Cytoskeleton
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Beginning of the axon
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axon hillock
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middle of the axon
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axon proper
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end of the axon
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terminal button
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"Antennae" of neurons
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dendrites
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most numerous glia in the brain that fill the spaces between neurons
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Astrocytes
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Region where the axonal membrane is exposed
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node of ranvier
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