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17 Cards in this Set
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Frontal Lobe |
intelligence, personality, attention, judgements, body movement, problem solving, speech (speak & write) |
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parietal lobe |
sense if touch, pain and temperature. size, shape and color identification. spatial & visual perception. |
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occipital lobe |
vision |
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temporal lobe |
memory, hearing, speech (language), sequencing, organization. |
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cerebellum |
balance and coordination |
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brainstem |
breathing, heart rate, alertness/consciousness |
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midbrain |
reflex center, connect brainstem to higher brain areas, main motor pathways |
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inferior colliculi |
auditory center |
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superior colliculi |
visual center |
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medulla oblongata |
ascending impulses, cardiac center, vasomotor center, respiratory center. |
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Pons |
relay impulses, sensory impulses, rhythm of breathing. |
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thalamus |
sensory impulses relay station |
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hypothalamus |
regulate homeostasis & visceral activity (ie. heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, hunger/weight, sleep/wakefulness, etc.) |
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epithalamus |
pineal gland, sleep wake cycle |
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pineal gland |
sleep wake cycle, produces melatonin |
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corpus callosum |
connect the hemispheres for communication |
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cerebral spinal fluid |
made in the choroid plexus, within the ventricals of the brain. functions to protect the brain by absorbing shock, maintaining ionic concentration, waste pathways and suspends brain. Begins in the lateral ventricals, circulates to the 3rd and 4th ventricals and central canal. enters subcarachoid space of meninges through wall of 4th ventrical and completes circuit with reabsorbtion into bloodstream. |
