Chapter 1 Flashcards
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Cerebrum
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- Thinking Center
- largest part of brain
- Location: top of brain
- Function: memory, thinking, personality, speech, problem solving &vision
- Divided into 2 hemispheres
2
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Cerebral Cortex
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thin outer layer of cerebrum covers the hemispheres folding creates large surface area
3
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Corpus Collosum
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Bundle of white matter that connects right and left hemispheres
4
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Thalamus
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- Sensory Sorting relay center
- Location: Center of brain
- Function: Sorts and relays sensory information provides connections with other parts of brain
- knife stabbing skin vs weight of clothes
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Hypothalamus
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- Homeostatic control center
- Location: lies beneath thalamus, W shape
- Function: maintains homeostasis of body’s internal environment
- major link between nervous system and endocrine system
- ex. balance of body temp
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Midbrain
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- Sight and hearing
- Location: above pons
- Function: relays info between hindbrain and forebrain. Controls skeletal muscles
ex. eye movement & pupil dilation
7
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Cerebellum
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- Motor movement center
- Location:base of brain
- Function: Unconscious coordination of muscles & balance, reflexes & body movements
- ex.tie shoes
8
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Medulla
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- Autonomic Control Center
- Location: base of brain
- Function: controls autonomic involuntary activity
ex. heart rate, breathing - Damage to medulla is fatal
9
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Pons
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- Autonomic & Relay control center
- Locaion: base of brain, large swelling
- Function: Relay center between cerebrum and cerebellum
- same autonomic functions as medulla and controls sleep and arousal
10
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Homeostasis
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- The need to maintain a constant internal environment despite external change
- The systems of the human body work together to maintain this balance
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Negative feedback Loop
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- Works to move body towards homeostasis
- associated with a healthy body
- steps are always opposite
12
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Central Nervous System CNS
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- brain and spinal cord
- made of grey matter
- located in outerbrain areas
- H shaped inner cord of spinal cord
- also made of white matter
- loacted inner brain areas outer spinal cord
13
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Positive Feedback Loop
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- works to move body away from homeostasis
- last step is same direction as first step
- Associated with diseased or changing body
- pregnancy contractions>contractions
14
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Spinal Cord
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- delicate nerve cord
- protected by a hard casing called the vertabrae
- connects CNS to PNS
- reflex center
15
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Brain
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-concentration of nerve cells (100 billion)
