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Neuro Midterm 1
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Health Care
Post-Graduate
02/17/2013

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Term
Frontal Lobe
Definition

Motor

Broca's aphasia (left hemisphere)

Behavior

Connected to limbic system

Memory

Corticomotor area voluntary and skilled

high level cognitive functions

Term
Parietal
Definition

Sensory

Humunculus

Term
Temporal
Definition

Hearing

Wernicke's area

Term
Occipital
Definition
Visual interpretation
Term
Association Areas
Definition
areas of the brain talk to each other
Term
Internal white capsule
Definition

motor cortex

most CVA damage to part that supplies motor axons

Term
Thalamus
Definition

Pain, tempurature, proprioception

sensory relay system

Term
Hypothalamus
Definition
endocrine system
Term
Basal Ganglia
Definition
Gross motor system
Term
Limbic system
Definition

Primitive system

Emotions, behavior, learning, and memory

Term
Cerebellum
Definition

Coordination

balance

force production & timing

involuntary/posutral

Term
Brain stem
Definition
medulla oblongata: center for controls of cardiac, resp, reticular activating systems
Term
Spinal cord
Definition

motor and sensory nerves

big traveling system

autonomic information travels through spinal cord

process basic reflexes

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