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23 Cards in this Set
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Different parts of the brain |
Localization |
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Planning organizing, coordinating and controlling movements, reasoning, and overall monoriting of thinking process |
Frontal lobe |
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sensation (mostly touch) |
Parietal Lobe |
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hearing |
Temporal Lobe |
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vison |
Occipital Lobe |
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Controls heartbeat and breathing |
Medulla |
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Grouses the brain to attend to the new stimuli |
Reticular formation |
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the relay station between senses and the cerebel cortex |
Thalamus |
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is concerned with the emotions of fear and anger |
amygdala |
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regulated eating, drinking, sexual arousal, body temperatures |
Hypothalamus |
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interprets and processes short-term memory |
hippocampus |
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"old brain" controls balance, movement, but mostly focused on coordination. (how your muscles work together) |
cerebellum |
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-connects the left and right hemispheres -allows communication between hemispheres |
Corpus Callosum |
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Central Nervous System |
brain and Spinal cord |
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Peripheral nervous System |
nerves outside the NS -neural tissue outside brain and spinal cord |
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Somatic Nervous System |
sensory & motor nerves, voluntary |
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Automatic Nervous system |
Internal systems, involuntary |
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life support center of the nueron |
cell body |
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branching extensions at the cell body. |
dendrites |
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long single extensions of a nueron |
axon |
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covers the axon and insulates and speeds up messages |
myelin Sheath |
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branched endings of an axon that transmit messages to other neurons |
Terminal Branches |
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Junction point of two or more nuerons |
Synapse |
