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Brain
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Physiology
Undergraduate 1
09/11/2007

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Term
hypothalamus
Function
Definition
Hormone Production and regulation
Functions is homeostasis, or maintaining feeding
blood pressure,
body temperature
fluid and electrolyte balance
body weight
are held to a precise value called the set-point.
Term
Amygdala
Function
Definition
plays a key role in integrating the components that comprise anxiety and fear.

Lesions of the Amygdala produce a tame animal

Emotions
Term
Basal ganglia
Function
Definition
motor
Term
Cerebrum
Function
Definition
Conscious thought processes, intellectual functions, memory storage and retrieval
Term
Occipital lobe
Function
Definition
Visual cortex
Term
Temporal lobe
Function
Definition
Auditory
Olfactory cortex
Term
Parietal Lobes
Function
Definition
Cognition
Information Processing
Pain and Touch Sensation
Spatial Orientation
Speech
Visual Perception
Term
Frontal Lobes
Function:
Definition
Motor Functions
Higher Order Functions
Planning
Reasoning
Judgement
Impulse Control
Memory
Term
Occipital Lobes
Function:
Definition
Controls Vision
Color Recognition
Term
Thalamus
Definition
processing centers sensory information relay
(Not smell)
Term
Hippocampus
Function:
Definition
Consolidation of New Memories

Emotions
Navigation
Spatial Orientation
Term
Basal Ganglia
Definition
Caudate nucleus – input, voluntary movement
Putamen input, voluntary movement
Globus pallidus – output, voluntary movement

Communicates between cerebral cortex and peripheral nervous system about bodies motor activity balance and excitatory and inhibitory neurons
Term
Mindbrain
Definition
Controls eye movement muscle skeletal and contains contains the
substantia nigra,
reticular activating system
that screens and regulate stimuli

If damaged cant sleep
Term
Substantia Nigra
Function:
Definition
Controls Voluntary Movement and fine motor movement Regulates Mood

Produces the Neurotransmitter Dopamine

***Damage present with parcansonnian sign and symptoms***
Term
limbic system structures:
Definition
Amygdala
Hippocampus
Hypothalamus
Thalamus
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