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25 Cards in this Set
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Neural Networks |
A lot of cells working together |
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Main goal of the brain |
keeps us alive and helps us achieve our goals |
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three major regions of the brain: Structure |
Hind brain, Mid brain, fore brain |
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three major regions of the brain: Function |
Primitive, feeling, thinking |
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Cerebellum |
Involved in motor coordination |
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Amygdala |
Involved in fear and intense emotions |
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Hippocampus |
Involved in memory |
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Hypothalamus |
Monitors eating, drinking, sex, emotion, stress and reward. |
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Left Hemisphere |
Rational, Logic, Math, Speech, Grammar |
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Right Hemisphere |
Intuition, Patterns and Configuration, Spatial Perception, Visual Recognition, Emotion |
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Occipital |
visual stimuli like color, shape and motion |
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Temporal |
hearing, language processing and memory |
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Frontal |
personality, intelligence and the control of voluntary muscles. |
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Parietal |
registers spatial location, attention and motor control. |
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Corpus Callosum |
Thick band of axons that connects the two hemispheres. |
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Spinal Cord |
-around 17 inches long -extends from the brain to the lower back -Protected by the spinal column (backbone). -It sends and receives information from the entire body and brain |
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Broca's Area |
involved the control of speech |
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Wernicke's Area |
involved in understanding language |
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Brain Imaging |
CAT scan |
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PET scan |
Measures the amount of glucose in various areas of the brain |
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MRI |
Creates a magnetic field around the person’s body and uses radio waves to construct images of the person’s tissues and biochemical activities |
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fMRI |
It looks for changes in blood oxygen that occur in association with brain activity |
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Neurogenesis |
New neurons are generated |
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Collateral Sprouting |
healthy neurons adjacent to damaged cells grow new branches |
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Substitution of Function |
damaged region’s function is taken over by another area of the brain. |
