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| anterior and preoptic nuclei of the hypothalamus |
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| responsible for heat dissipation |
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| posterior nucleus of the hypothalamus |
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| responsible for heat conservation |
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| ventro-posterior lateral nucleus of the thalamus - gets all touch information as well as some pain and temperature information -> associated with dorsal columns and spinothalamic pathways; associated with areas 3,1&2 |
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| gets information from basal ganglia; assocated with area 6 (responsible for planning movement) |
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| associated with sensory information from the eye (vision) |
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| associated with auditory information |
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| samples information leaving the thalamus; plays a role in individual processing (area cut during lobotomy) |
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| ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus |
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inhibits appetite --> damage will cause hyperphagia; individual will keep eating until organs rupture
inhibits rage --> lesions with produce symptoms of anger |
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| lateral nucleus of the hypothalamus |
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stimulates appetite --> damage results in hypophagia/aphagia (loss of appetite)
responsible for anger/rage --> stimulation produces symptoms of anger; lesions produce very placid behavior |
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| primary (somato)sensory area of the neocortex; receives all information concerning touch, pain, temperature, and taste |
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primary motor cortex --> involved in initiating movement
gets information from area 6 |
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premotor cortex --> serves as an advisor to area 4; takes information from basal ganglia, cerebellum, sensory areas, and integrates it before sending to area 4
plans movement in every possible direction |
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| frontal eyefiels --> coordinate eye movements |
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| Broca's area --> control all facial activity; left hemisphere is responsible for the motor component of speech, while and analogous structure in the right hemisphere gives speech its tone, inflection, and character |
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prefrontal cortex - the most primitive of neocortical areas
involved in individality and personality; provides inhibitions on reflexes |
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| visual association areas (get information from area 17) |
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Wernicke's area - helps to determine sounds from auditory information --> usually associated with the left hemisphere (left handed people have it in both hemispheres)
left side is associated with logic; right side is associated with more abstract interpretive properties |
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| the association area of association areas |
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composed of small stellate neurons
all information coming into the cortex synapses here
distributes information to other layers |
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mostly composed of pyramidal neurons
exports information from the cortex |
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| white matter in the cerebral cortex |
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| refers to putamen and caudate nucleus together |
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| refers to putamen and globus pallidus together |
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symptoms: random and continuous choreiform movements, decrease in muscle tone, reflexes and sensations are unaffected
cause: atrophy of corpus striatum |
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symptoms: resting tremor, plastic rigidity, increase in muscle tone, difficulty moving, mask-like expression
cause: degeneration of substantia nigra (in 90% of cases), corpus striatum, frontal cortex |
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| band of white matter that connects the two cerebral hemispheres |
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| damage to the mammillary bodies --> individuals have difficulty retaining new information |
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| damage to the hippocampus |
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| individuals have difficulty retaining new information and recalling old memories |
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| sits close to the hippocampus -> associated with learning, memory; formation of anger, rage, and other emotions |
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integration area -> deals with association properties of sensory and motor information; stores information into one useful memory
kind of like a card catalogue of memory
3 layers of cells |
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| layer in the hippocampus composed of granule cells |
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| stroke in the posterior cerebral artery |
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sits in the lateral, third, and fourth ventricles
produces corticospinal fluid
corpus callosum sits along the top of it |
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area of dura mater that goes in between the cerebral hemispheres
sits on top of corpus callosum |
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| anterior lobe of the cerebellum |
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| involved in muscle tone, keeps the muscles contracted |
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| posterior lobe of the cerebellum |
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involved in free movement and planning
plans every possible motion |
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| involved in equilibrium and posture |
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