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11 Cards in this Set
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Spinal Cord
Root ganglion (branching out) Horn (is the gray matter inside) Ventral root - Carries motor (efferent) Dorsal Root - carries sensory (afferent) |
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White matter in Spine
info to and from the brain. Ascending tracts - the dorsal,, alot part. Back and side Descending tracts - the ventral, small circle blue parts. alot @ the back and some on the side. Circular structure. |
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Brain's 4 lobes.
Frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal lobe. Brain function 1. sensory system 2. cognitive system 3. behavioral system |
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Looping of axons is what you see here.
3 and 5 are superior/inferior collicoli. Its for the 3D map of the space around you, the inferior one is a “map” of auditories. |
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Brain stem
thalamus pons medulla oblongata Reticular formation (clusters of neurons inside brainstem) |
Top of spinal cord leading to "primitive brain"
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Reticular Formation
Neuromodulatory Role |
Diffuse groups of neurons.
**also involved in arousal and sleep cycles automatic body functions: breathing, BP, muscle tone, pain modulation |
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Summary of All major parts
*Cerebrum *Diencephalon *Cerebellum *Brain Stem |
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Diancephalon
*thalamus *hypothalamus *pituitary *pineal gland |
primitive brain -= lots of reflex
functions hypothalamus = link to rest of body & endocrine control. |
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Cerebrum (Frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal lobes)
Cerebral cortex Basal ganglia Limbic systems (amygdala, hippocampus) |
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Limbic System
cingulate gyrus amygdala hippocampus |
very primitive
links emotion to higher order cognition/ reasoning |
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Language - Broca and Wernicke's area.
a. speaking a written word b. speaking a heard word |
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