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21 Cards in this Set
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Corpus Callosum
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Communication between the brains right and left hemispheres
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Motor Strip
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Regulation of voluntary movement.
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Sensory Strip
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Integration of sensory information from various parts of the body.
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Parietal Lobe
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Somesthetic and motor discriminations and functions.
Ex: Reception & evaluation of most sensory info (smell, hearing, and vision) |
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Occipital Lobe
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Visual discrimination and some aspects of visual memory
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Frontal Lobe
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Learning, abstracting, reasoning, inhibiting
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Hypothalamus
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Regulation of metabolism, temperature, and emotions
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Pituitary
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Regulation of endocrine System
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Temporal lobe
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Discrimination of sounds; verbal and speech behavior
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Medulla
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Breathing, blood pressure, and other vital functions
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Thalamus
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Major relay station for messages from all parts of the body, important in sensations of pain
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Cerebellum
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Fine motor coordination, posture, balance, and integration of emotional processes
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Reticular formation
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Arousal reactions, information screening.
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Cerebral Cortex
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critical in decision making & higher order thinking such as abstract reasoning
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Limbic System-
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Involved in regulating emotional behavior, memory, and learning
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Basal Ganglia-
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coordinate involuntary muscle movements and muscle tone
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Hypothalamus
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Regulates pituitary hormones; temperature, and behaviors such as eating, drinking, and sex.
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Locus ceruleus
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Makes norepinephrine a neurotransmitter involve in the bodys response to stress
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Raphe nuclei
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makes serotonin, a neurotransmitter involved in the regulation of sleep, behavior, and mood.
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Substantia nigra
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makes dopamine, a neurotransmitter involved in complex movements, thinking, and emotions.
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