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17 Cards in this Set
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Hindbrain
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Things like the instincts of survival, dominance, mating and the basic functions of respiration, heartbeat
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Spinal Cord
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Carries information up to the brain and instructions back down.
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Medulla Oblongata
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autonomic functions like respiration, digestion and heart rate
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The Pons
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evel of arousal or conciousness and sleep
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Cerebellum
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Mostly deals with movement. It regulates and coordinates movement, posture and balance
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Limbic System
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emotional brain
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Amygdala
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It helps in storing and classifying emotionally charged memories. It plays a large role in producing our emotions, especially fear.
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Hippocampus
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It's primary role is in memory formation, classifying information, long-term memory.
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Hypothalamus
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It monitors and controls your circadian rhythms, homeostasis, apetite, thirst, other bodily urges
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Thalamus
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The Thalamus is THE relay station in the brain. Most of the sensory signals, auditory, visual, somatosensory
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Neocortex
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Language, abstract thought, conciousness and imagination.
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Frontal Lobe
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Reasoning, problem solving, judgement, impulse control.
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Parietal Lobe
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Pain and touch sensation
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Temporal Lobe
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Auditory and language
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Occipital Lobe
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Visual sensation and processing
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Broca's Area
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Controls speech, language recognition and facial nerves
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Corpus Callosum
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Neural bridge that connects the two hemispheres to each other
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