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| What is the Central Nervous System Comprised of? |
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| What is the brain and spinal cord |
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| What is the Peripheral Nervous System? |
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| What is the peripheral nerves which are processes in and out of the CNS: cranial and spinal nerves. |
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| What are the Cranial Nerves (general)? |
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| What are 12 nerves that go from your brain to your eyes, mouth, ears, and other parts of your head |
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| What are Spinal nerves (general)? |
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| What are 31 spinal nerves? |
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| What is the spinal cord a continuation of? |
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| What are Autonomic nerves? |
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| What are nerves that go from your spinal cord to your lungs, heart, stomach, intestines, bladder and sex organs (involuntary control) |
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| What nerves have involuntary control? |
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| What are the Autonomic nerves? |
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| What is comprised of neurons? |
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| What is the nervous system? |
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| What are Neurons and how many are there? |
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| What is btw 100 and 1,000 billions of a basic anatomic unit. |
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| What is a specific cell receiving and processing information from one point to another point |
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| Name 6 parts that a neuron includes. |
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| dendrite, soma, nucleous, axon, myelin sheath, and axon terminal button |
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| What are branches that receives info from another nuron |
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| What is an extesion that will move the info to the axon terminal button that is connected with another neuron |
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| What is the axon covered with? |
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| What is the myelin sheath |
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| What is the function of the myelin sheath? |
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| What is an insulator in a neuron |
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| Does every neuron have myelin? |
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| In a neuron, where does information go? |
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| From the dendrite to the axon terminal body |
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| What are the 3 simpliest classification of neurons |
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| What are Sensory, Inter-neurons, and motor |
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| What are Sensory neurons? |
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| What gathers info from the environment (receiving); node of ranvier, sensitive to environmental changes to the skin (light) |
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| What is located in the CNS and connects other neurons; nucleus of Schwann cell, node of ranvier |
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| What controls the contractions of muscles or secretions of glands |
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| Be able to describe neuron pathway |
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| Sensory-Interneuron-Motor Neuron |
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| What is involved in motor activity |
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| Pyramidal system, Cerebellum, Basal Ganglia |
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| The pryamidal system is mostly what? |
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| What is contralater (85-90%) |
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| The right controls the left and the left controls the right |
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| What does the brain weigh? |
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| What weighs 1500 grams or 3 lbs |
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| What is the synaptic cleft |
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| a gap between 2 neurons; neurotranmitters will be relaesed and then activate the next neuron (synapsis) |
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| What is a neuro transmitter |
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| What is a synaptic vesicle |
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| What are the 4 basic Neuron types |
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| Bipolar, Unipolar, Multipolar, and pyrimidal |
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| Draw the 4 basic neuron types |
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| A bipolar neuron is what classification |
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| What type is a interneuron |
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| What type is a sensory neuron |
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| What classification is a unipolar neuron |
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| What type is a motorneuron |
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| What classification is a multipolar neuron |
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| Where do you find prymidal cells |
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| What are the 5 lobes of the brain |
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| Frontal, Parietal, occipital, temporal, and Insula |
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| What are the characteritics of the frontal lobe? |
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| What is the largest lobe, 1/3 of cortex; motor activity, area of broca |
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| What are the characteristics of the parietal lobe |
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| What means wall; sensory info, general body of sensitivity; read comp. |
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| What are the characteristics of the occiptital lobe |
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| What processes visual info |
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| What are the characteristics of the temporal lobe |
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| What is the speech area of Wernicke, auditory processing, prosessing of visual info, olfactory info, memory, emotional behavior |
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| What areas involve memory |
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| Temproal lobe (hippocampus; main area that participates in memory) |
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| What are the characteritics of the insula |
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| What is a hidden lobe or Verinsula; covered by the temporal lobe |
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| What two lobes have no seperation? |
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| The occipital lobe and the temporal lobe |
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| Name the 3 main fissures of the brain |
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| What are the Central Fissure, Lateral Fissure, and Longitudal Fissure |
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| What is another name for the Central Fissure |
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| What is another name for the rolandic fissure |
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| Where is the Central fissure located |
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| What separates the fronal lobe from the parietal lobe |
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| What is another name for the lateral fissure? |
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| What is another name for the sylvan fissure |
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| What is the location of the Lateral Fissure |
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| What seperates the temporal and parietal lobes from the frontal lobe |
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| What is the location of the longitudal fissure |
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| What seperates the right and left hemisphere |
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| The brains stem si connected to the |
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| What are the 2 groove types in the cortex |
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| Sulci (Sulcus singular) and Fissures |
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| What is the small groove in the cortex called |
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| What are the large grooves in the cortex |
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| What are the bulges in the cortex called |
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| What are gyri (or convolutions) |
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| How many layers of cortical cells |
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| Describe the matter of the cortex |
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| What is the most external part is around 1/2 cm or 1 cm at the grey matter; below is the white matter |
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| What is the basal ganglia |
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| what are a collection of neurons involved in motor activity |
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| What is the function of the thalamus |
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| What has the function to receive sensory info before sending it to the cortex |
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| What is the function of the hypothalamus |
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| What is responsible for feeding, fighting, fleeing, sexual behavior |
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| What is the pituitary control |
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| Hormones are controlled by what |
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| What is the function of the hippocampus |
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| What is involved in memory; most internal part of the temporal lobe |
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| The frontal lobe is in charge of what 2 functions |
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| What has executive functions and movement |
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| What are executive functions |
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| What function is thinking, planning, organizing, and problem solving. Emotionas and behavior control, personality (prefrontal lobe) maturation in adolescence -ability to abstract or conceptualize |
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| Movement is related to what part of the brain |
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| What is the function of the parietal lobe |
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| Sensation in the sensory cortex and perception: making sense of the world; arithmetic, spelling |
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| What is the occipital lobe's function |
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| Visual (brodmann's area 17) |
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| What brodmann's area is visual |
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| What is the function of the cerebellum |
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| What are the function of the temporal lobe |
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| memory; understanding; language |
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| What is the function of the spinal cord |
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| What carries info up and down the brain |
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| How is olfactory info processed |
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| What is processed in the cortex thru the thalamus (primitive type of info) |
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| What is deep inside the brain |
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| Where is the basal ganglia, cerebrum, hippocampus, and thalamus |
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| What is the caudate nucleus |
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| What is the basal ganglia |
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| What is the cerebal cortex |
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| Where is the hippocampus and what is its function |
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| what is in the temporal lobe and responsible for memory |
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| What is the function of the thalamus |
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| What recives sensory info before sending it to the cortex. inner structure of the brain, including the limbic system |
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| The basal ganglia is a collection of |
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| What is a collection of neurons; involved in motor activity |
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| The basal ganglia includes |
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| What includes the Putament, caudate nucleus, globus pallidus, and substantia nigra |
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| The caudate nucleus is closest to the |
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| Talk about the substantia nigra |
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| lower at the level of the midbrain/mesencephalon (window); generates depamine |
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| The lenicular nucleus is comprised of |
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| What is the globus pallidus and putamen |
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| Internal Capsule is located |
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| What liquid do the ventricles contain |
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| Where is the cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) |
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| (2) lateral ventricles (right and left), 3rd ventricle, that connects to the 4th ventricle |
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| What ventricle is located at the level of the thalamus and has a hole in the middle |
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| Where the 3rd ventricle is |
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| Where is the 4th ventricle located |
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| What ventricle is located at the level of the spinal cord |
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| What connects the 3rd and the 4th ventricle |
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| What is the masa intermedia Or cerbral aquaduct |
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| What is the hypothalmus and where is it located |
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| Located under the thalamus; 5 f's feeling,fighting,feeding,fearing,sexual behavior |
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| What is the pituitary and location |
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| Whad is in charge of gland control; hormone system; below the hypothalamus gland; master gland; works togeter with the hypothalamus |
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| What are the three main parts of brain organization |
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| What are the Cerebrum, brain stem, and spinal cord |
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| What are the parts of the cerebrum |
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| What is the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, temporal lobe (thalamus and basal ganglia within cortical mantle |
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| What are the parts of the brain stem |
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| Midbrain, pons, medulla oblongata |
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| What are the parts of the spinal cord |
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| Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral |
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| The midbrain has what 2 parts |
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| tegmemtum and tectum (roof of the midbrain |
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| The medulla corresponds to what |
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| What corresponds to the spinal cord |
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| What is the cerebellum and where is it located |
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| What is the little brain located below the occipital lobe; close to the brain stem; located btw occipital lobe and brain stem. |
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| Fossa (Interfossa, midfossa, posterior fossa) |
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| Broca's area is where and what |
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| Area that is located in the frontal lobe responsible for speech production - major are, problem solving; abstract, contextualizing, higher psychological process; association areas. |
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| Where and what is Wernicke's area |
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| langauge understanding (temporal lobe); association area |
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| Prefronatal cortex is responsible for |
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| What are executive functions; volitional association area; association area |
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| What is the angulary gyrus and location |
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| Verbal association area; parietal lobe; reading, language; sensory area. |
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| Primary motor area (in front of the central fissure) |
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| The Homunculus is comprised of |
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| Somatosensory strip and motor strip |
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| What and where sematosensory strip |
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| Frontal and temporal lobes forearm, thumb, tongue |
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| What and where is the motor strip |
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| Parietal and occipital lobes - hands, lips, swallowing |
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| What gyrus is motor cortex |
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| What gyrus is primary somatosensory cortex |
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| external part of the brain; 5-7 mm |
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| pathways in and out of the cortex; correspondes to the axis (about 1cm) |
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| What are the 6 layers of the cerberal cortex |
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| molecular layer, external granular, external pyramidal,internal granular, internal pryamidal, multiform layer |
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| What layer has giant nerves of Betz or Pyramidal neurons - origin |
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| The spinal cord goes thru what |
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| the center of stacked vertebrae which portect the spinal cord |
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| How long is the spinal cord |
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| 30-45 cm depending on the individual (around 40cm) |
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| Why is it important to have water in the brain |
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| What acts like a cushion for the brain |
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| The spinal cord has how many pairs of spinal nerves |
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| What is the breakdown of the spinal nerves |
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| Cervical (8); Thoracic (12); lumbar (5); sacral nerves (5); coccygeal nerve |
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| Where is the sciatic nerve |
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| The spinal cord consists of |
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| What consists of spinal nerves, disc, and vertebra |
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| What is the struture of a spinal nerve |
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| Has a motor root (controlling motor activity);sensory root(rec sensory info and carries to brain) |
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| the end of cell body of motor neuron |
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| Know the chart of the forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain |
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| What is the corpus callusum |
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| What is the pathway connecting the right and left hemisphere; interconnected |
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| What are the 3 parts of the corpus callusum |
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| The genu/knee-central part interior; splenium-posterior;body-interior |
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| Parkinson's disease lowers |
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| What lowers the level of dopamine, which lowers the level of happiness (sustantia nigra) motor disturbance |
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