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| Where is the primary somatosensory cortex? |
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| Whre is the Somatosensory association area? |
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| Where is the visual sensory area? |
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| The Visual sensory area is surrounded by what? |
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| Where is the auditory sensory area? |
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| Where is the auditory association area? |
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| What sensory cortex givs you information about spacial discrimination? |
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| Primary Somatosensory Cortex in the parietal lobe |
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| What sensory area tells you what you are seeing? |
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| visual sensory area in occiptal lobe |
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| What sensory area tells you what an object is without seeing it, like telling the difference between a quarter and dime in your pocket? |
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| somatosensory association area |
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| Which sensory area informs you how to interpret speech, such as tone of voice and speech patterns? |
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| auditory association area |
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| What sensory area are you using when it is cloudy outsidem, you hear a loud bang and are able to tell it is thunder without seeing lightening? |
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| auditory association area, takes past sound memories and associates it with present sounds |
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| Where is the olfaction cortex? |
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| Where is the gustatory cortex? |
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| parietal lobe (it is the sense of taste) |
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| What lobe is the prefrontal cortex in? |
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| What is the most complicated cortical region? |
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| personality, intelligence, judgement, reasoning, persistence, planning caring for others is in what association area? |
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| What can tumors or lesions in the prefrontal cortex cause? |
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| mental and personality disorders |
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| The general interpretive area is also known as what? |
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| From where does the general interpretive area receive input? |
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| from all sensory association areas |
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| What is the storage site for complex memory patterns associated with sensation? |
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| General interpretive area. |
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| What area of the brain are you using when you walk in the kitchen, smell something bad, and determine the potatoes have gone bad without seeing them? |
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| general interpretive area |
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prevents a person from producing speech.
person can understand language
words are not properly formed.
speech is slow and slurred. |
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| Describe Wernicke's area. |
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loss of the ability to understand language
person can speak clearly, but the words that are put together make no sense. This way of speaking has been called "word salad" because it appears that the words are all mixed up like the vegetables in a salad. |
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| Where is the primary motor area and for what is it responsible? |
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| frontal lobe-movement, voluntary, allows you to coordinate to move |
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| Where is the premotor cortex and for what is it responsible? |
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| frontal lobe-repetitive movement, pattern movement like typing, tying shoes, piano playing, strengthens as you practice it |
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| frontal lobe, in the left hemisphere |
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| Where is the frontal eye field? |
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| What does the frontal eye field control? |
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| voluntary movement of the eyes |
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| Broca's area is also called |
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| What does the motor speech area do? |
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| directs muscles of speech and also is active when we think about speaking, coordinates tongue & mouth movement |
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| In people's brains certain hemispheres have greater control over particular functions. What is this called? |
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| lateralization of hemispheres |
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| Left brain has more control over |
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language abilities
mathematical abilities
logic |
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| Right side of the brain is more involved in |
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| visual-spatial skills. Intuition, emotion and appreciation of art and music. |
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| __________ _________ _________ provides for communication between cerebral areas and between the cerebral cortex and lower centers |
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| White matter consists largely of what? |
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| myelinated fibers bundled into large tracts |
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| Cerebral white matter commisures run in what direction? |
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| Cerebral white matter associations run in what direction? |
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| Cerebral white matter projections run in what direction? |
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| upper to lower nervous system |
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| What are the three communication tracks of the cerebral white matter? |
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Commisures
Association fibers
Projection fibers |
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| What do commissures connect? |
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| corresponding area of the two hemispheres allowing them to function as coordinated whole. |
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| What is the largest commissure? |
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| What do association fibers do? Fibers run in what direction? |
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| transmit impulses within a single hemisphere from front to back. Run horizontally |
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| What do projection fibers do? In what direction do they run? |
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| Tie the cortex to the rest of the nervous system and to the effectors and receptors of the body. Run vertically. |
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| What part of the cerebral white matter produces dopamine? |
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| What are the basal nuclei? |
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| deep cerebral motor centers |
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| caudate nucleus, putamen and globus pallidus |
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| What forms the central core of the forebrain? |
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What is the diencephalon composed of?
What does the diencephalon contain? |
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thalamus and hypothalamus
Optic tracts and optic chiasm
Infundibulum and posterior pituitary gland
Mamillary bodies
Pineal gland |
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| How is the pituitary gland attached to the hypothalmus? |
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| by the infundibulum between the optic chiasm and mammillary bodies |
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| __________ is the main visceral control center that is responsible for homeostasis. |
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| __________ is the main visceral control center that is responsible for homeostasis. |
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| The _______ makes up 80% of the diencephalon. |
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| The thalamus is composed of |
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| bilateral masses of gray matter |
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| Afferent impulses from what enter the thalamus. |
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| all senses and all parts of the body |
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| This part of the brain can be thought of as an editor. |
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| thalamus, it edites information from sensory areas -get a sensation if something is pleasant vs. unpleasant, like hot shower vs. boiling water, from memories |
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| The hypothalamus is the major control center of the ________ and __________ ______ systems |
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| endocrine and autonomic nervous system |
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| The _______ is the autonomic control center. |
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| What are the three main homeostatic roles of the hypothalamus? |
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Control autonomic centers in brain & spine
center for emotional response and behavior
Body temperature regulation
Regulation of water balance and thirst
Regulation of sleep/wake cycles |
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| The _____ ______ secretes melatonin and plays a role in the circadian rhythm. |
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| Autonomic centers in brain and spinal cord do what? |
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influence blood pressure
rate and force of heart contractions
motility of the digestive tract
respiratory rate |
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| The center for emotional response and behavior is involved with what? |
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| perception of pain, pleasure, fear, and rage |
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| What does body temperature regulation do? |
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| monitors the temperature of the blood and initiates cooling or heat retention mechanisms-sweating, shivering |
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| What does regulation of water balance & thirst do? |
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"how much you urinate"
concentrated body fluids-> hypothalamic neurons->pituitary->antidiuretic hormone->kidney's retain water |
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| What does regulation of sleep/wake cycles do? |
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| sets the timing of sleep cycle in response to daylight-darkness cues received from visual pathways |
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| What system connects the to parts of the thalamus, hypothalamus, and basal nuclei? |
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| limbic system, connecting thinking part of brain to regulation system, why you have psychosomatic illness |
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| What system dictates strong emotional responses? |
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