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29 Cards in this Set
- Front
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Brocas Area
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understanding language and speech
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Cerebellum
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Walk, talk ,eat, basic motor functions
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Frontal Lobe
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Planning, solving problems, personality
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Hippocampus
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Forming and retrieving memories
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Left Cerebral Hemisphere
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controls the left side of your body,basically left side of brain
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medulla
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Involuntary bodyfunctions like heartbeat and digest
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Motor Cortex
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contol movements
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Occipital Lobe
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Processes visual information
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Parietal Lobe
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controls touch sensation and pressure
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Right cerebal cortex
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creative side controls left side of brain
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Sensory Cortex
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Receives info from spinal cord like touch
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Temporal Lobe
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visual memory/ hearing/smell
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Thalamus
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Controls input/output sensation pain and attention
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Wernicke's Area
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Understanding and formulating speech
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nuerons
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building blocks of simpicity
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dendrite fibers
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recieve information
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axon fiber
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pass on information to muscles
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myelin sheath
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layer of fatty tissue that isulate axons of some neuron that help impulses go faster
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synapse
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The junction betwwen two neurons
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neurotransmitters
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the release of chemical messengers
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Acteylcholine
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neurotransmitter for learning and memory
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endorphins
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"morphine within" natural opaquelike neuro transmitters linked to pain and pleasure
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nervous system
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The bodys speedy electrol chemical communication system consisting of all cells
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central nervous system
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the brain and spinal cord
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soamtic neervous system
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controls bodies skeletal muscles
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autonomic nervous system
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control muscles and glands of your internal organs
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sympathetic nervous system
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arouses the body mobilizing the body in stressful situations
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parasympathetic nervous system
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calms the body conserving its energy
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reflex
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automatic involuntary response to stimli
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