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15 Cards in this Set
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Frontal Lobes
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Executive Functioning. Planning, future actions, regulates behavior, cognitive flexibility.
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Parietal Lobes
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Top portion of the brain.
Assimilates body sensations. Symbolic associations and math skills. Sometimes integrates information. |
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Temporal Lobe
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Near and under the ears.
Auditory information, and is implicated in reading problems (phonemic awareness) |
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Occipital Lobe
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Back of the head, responsible for processing visual information.
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Amygdala
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Emotions and emotional responses.
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Hippocampus
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Stores memories, makes new memories.
Linked to mental illness, Alzheimer's. Thought to be impacted by estrogen. |
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Cerebral Cortex
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Higher order reasoning
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Broca's Area
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Responsible for speech production, language processing, and language comprehension, as well as controlling facial neurons.
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Wernicke's Area
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Located on the temporal lobe on the left side of the brain and is responsible for the comprehension of speech
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Limbic System
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Part of the lower brain - houses amygdala and hypocampus, etc. - responsible for emotions
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Aphasia
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Inability to use language
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Agnosia
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Inability to identify seen objects
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"Left Hemisphere"
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Large but not totally responsible for language, speaking, writing, math, coordinating some complex movements.
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"Right Hemisphere"
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Large but not totally responsible for recognizing patterns, faces, spatial relations and recognizing emotions.
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ADHD and the Brain
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Thought to be associated with dysfunction in the frontal lobes, but research is still emerging.
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