Nervous System Organization And Structure

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Medulla:

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nerve cells in the medulla connect the body to perform basic functions such as regulating breathing, heart rate, sneezing, salivating and vomiting with little conscious control

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Reticular formation:

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extends from the medulla upwards to the midbrain and influences attention and alertness, and communicated with cells in the spinal cord involved with movements related to walking and posture.

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Pons:

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contributes to the general levels of wakefulness and appears to have a role in dreaming and a number of networks including balance, eye movement and swallowing

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Cerebellum:

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lobe-like structure at the base of the brain that is involved in the monitoring of movement, maintaining balance, attention and emotional responses

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The Midbrain:

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resides just above the hindbrain, primarily functions as a relay station between the sensory and motor areas

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Superior colliculus:

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influences the ability to capture our visual attention

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Inferior colliculus:

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influences the ability to move your auditory attention

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Substantia nigra:

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a midbrain area that has connections to structures in the forebrain

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The forebrain:

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the most visibly obvious region of the brain, consists of all the neural structures that are located above the midbrain, including all of the folds and groves on the outer surface of the brain

emotion, memory, thinking and reasoning

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Ventricles:

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spaces that appear hollow but are filled with cerebrospinal fluid, a solution that helps to eliminate wastes, provides nutrition and hormones to the brain and spinal cord, and cushions the brain from impact against the skull.

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Basal ganglia:

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sits next to the ventricles, a group of three structures that are involved in facilitating planned movements, skill learning, and integrating sensory and movement information with the brains reward system body

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Limbic system:

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an integrated network involved in emotion and memory

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Amygdala:

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facilitates memory formation for emotional events, mediates fear responses and appears to play a role in recognizing and interpreting emotional stimuli, including facial expressions

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Hippocampus:

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critical for learning and memory, particularly the formation of new memories

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Occipital lobes

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One that projects the temporal lobes and is involved withobject recognition · One that projects to the parietal lobes and is involvedwith using vision to guide our movements.

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parietal loves:

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involved in our experiences of touch and bodily awareness, and function in performing mathematical, visuospatial, and attention tasks Sensory cortex: found at the anterior (front) edge of the parietal lobe and is a band of densely packed nerve cells that register touch sensation

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Temporal lobes:

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located at the sides of the brain near the ears and are involved in hearing, language and some higher-level aspects of vision such as object and face recognition § The anterior (front) part of this region is involved with memory for semantic knowledge

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Frontal lobes:

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Important in numerous higher cognitive functions, such as planning, regulating impulses and emotion, language production and voluntary movement

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Auditory cortex:

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found in the superior (top) part of the temporal cortex and is essential for our ability to hear

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Wernicke’s area:

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found behind (near the back) part of the temporal lobe and is related to understanding language § Bottom of the temporal lobes has a key role in memory ·