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Brain Structure
Advanced Biology
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Biology
12th Grade
03/01/2011

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Brain Stem
Definition
connected to the superior part of the spinal cord
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Cerebellum
Definition
Regulatesposture and balance, and skilled skeletal movement. Located inferior and posterior to the medulla and pons
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Diencephalon
Definition
Superior to the brain stem in the center of the brain. Thalamus, hypothalamus, and epithalamus
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Thalamus
Definition
Located in the Diencephalon. principal relay station for sensory fibers and some somatic motor fibers
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hypothalamus
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Control many bodily function and homeostasis. emotions, hormones, eating, drinking, and body temperature and controlled here
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Epithalamus
Definition
Includes Pineal Glands- secretes melatonin
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Cerebrum
Definition
nade up of right an left hemispheres. Center of higher mental process: intelligence, ommunication, learning, memory, reasoning, and emotions.
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Cerebral Cortex
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Superficial gray matter
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Insula
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part that lies deeper on the laera sides of the brain
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Basal Ganglia
Definition
areas of gray matter
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Corpus Callosum
Definition
connects the two cerebral hemispheres
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