Parts Of The Brain Flashcards

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Frontal lobe

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  • Planning
  • Behavior regulation
  • Learning new tasks
  • emotions
  • judgement
  • ideation, abstraction
  • Broca’s area
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Parietal lobe

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  • taste
  • temperature
  • spatial area
  • touch
  • pain
  • prop
  • sensation

all from opposite side of body

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3
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Occipital lobe

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Visual perception

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4
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Temporal lobe

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Auditory function
- Wernicke’s area: language comprehension

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5
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insula

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visceral functions

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6
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limbic system

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  • instincts
  • emotions
  • feeding
  • aggression
  • sex
  • long term memories
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7
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thalamus

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  • relays sensory info from body, face, retina, cochlea, taste receptors to cerebral cortex & subcortical regions (except smell)
  • relay info from cerebellum to globus pallidus
  • visceral & somatic functions
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8
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subthalamus

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  • sensory
  • motor
  • reticular function
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9
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hypothalamus

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ANS
- homeostasis
- body temp
- eating
- water balance
- anterior pituitary function
- sex
- emotion

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10
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pineal gland

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circadian rhythm (sleep/wake cycle)

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11
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epithalamus

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integrate olfactory, visceral, somatic afferent pathyways (sensations)

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12
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cerebellum

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balance & coordination
- posture, voluntary movement control (akinesia if impaired), smooth coordination of voluntary movements (dysmetria if impaired)

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13
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L brain

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  • logic
  • speech
  • verbal processing, auditory information
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14
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R bran

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  • emotional lability
  • nonverbal memory
  • visual spatial processing
  • unilateral neglect & spatial dysfunction w/CVA
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