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23 Cards in this Set
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Thalamus, Hypothalamus, Pituitary & Pineal Gland |
Diencephalon |
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Diencephalon - Thalamus |
Sensory relay station - receive many cortical projections |
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Diencephalon - Thalamus: LGN |
Lateral Geniculate Nucleus - first synapse after optic nerve leaves the eye (visual) |
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Diencephalon - Thalamus: MGN |
Medial Geniculate Nucleus - auditory relay (auditory) |
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Diencephalon - Thalamus: VPN |
Ventro Posterior Nucleus - sensorimotor relay (sensory) |
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Diencephalon - Hypothalamus |
Control for ANS - outputs to ANS (brainstem) & pituitary gland (endocrine) |
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Diencephalon - Thalamus: homeostasis |
Regulation of motivated behaviours (eating, sleeping, mating, growth) |
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Diencephalon - Pituitary & Pineal glands |
Makes & secretes various hormones |
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Basal ganglia, Limbic system, Cerebral cortex, Frontal lobe, Parietal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Occipital Lobe |
Telencephalon |
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Telencephalon - Basal Ganglia |
Movement [m], learning & motivation - reward system [r] (striatum - caudate [r] & putamen [m]) |
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Telencephalon - Limbic System |
Midline (Thalamus) - regulates motivational behaviours, emotion: amygdala & hippocampus |
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Telencephalon - Limbic System: amygdala |
Learned fear response, recognition of emotion in others |
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Telencephalon - Limbic System: hippocampus |
Long term memory |
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Telencephalon - cerebral cortex: facts |
28 billion neurons, >1 trillion synapses, >80% human brain mass |
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Telencephalon - Cerebral cortex: structure |
Grey matter, two hemispheres - corpus callosum, gyri, sulci |
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Gyri |
Ridges |
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Sulci |
Fissures |
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Telencephalon - Frontal lobe |
Personality & communication: motor control, decision making (memories, emotions, environment), planning, working memory, Broca's area |
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Telencephalon - Parietal Lobe |
Somatosensory & spatial perception |
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Telenceohalon - Temporal Lobe |
Auditory, language, long term memory, emotion, Wernicke's area |
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Telencephalon - Occipital lobe |
Visual |
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Telencephalon - Temporal Lobe: Wernicke's area |
Language development & speech comprehension |
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Telencephalon - Frontal lobe: Broca's area |
Speech production & language processing |
