Nervous System

Question 1

Brain legion are sets of _____ neurons

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Interconnected

Question 2

Humans have ______ brains and are very ___________ because of all the folds

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Large, convoluted

Question 3

In the human brain because we have so many folds we can hold lots of __________

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Information

Question 4

Humans have on average more ______ per neuron and more synapses per any given _______ in the brain

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Dendrites, neurons

Question 5

Most of the differences in our brain happen on the ______ most layer of the brain

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Outer(cortex)

Question 6

Even though human brains are different there lots of ________ aspects between us and animals

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Common

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CNS

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Central nervous system Brain and spinal chords

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PNS

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Peripheral nervous system , Everything outside the brain and spinal cord

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The peripheral nervous system includes

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Somatic system, autonomic system

Cranial and spinal, parasympathetic, sympathetic

Question 10

In order for something to be in the Central nervous system

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It must start and end in the central nervous system

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Somatic nervous system

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Processes sensory information and controls the voluntary muscle movements

Ex) move eyes, wave hands

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Autonomic nervous system

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Things that you don’t have to think about typically

Ex) Controls muscles and visceral organs breathing, heart beat

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Cranial nerves

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Nerves that don’t go into the spinal cord

Ex)eye movement

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Spinal nerves

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Moving hands and feet

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Parasympathetic nervous system

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Controlling the dilation of your eyes, rest and digest system normal situations

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Sympathetic nervous system

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Controlling dilation of your eyes, Takes over when you’re in fight or flight mode

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Central nervous system

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of systems, lots of divisions within systems, it’s layers,

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Phineaus gage

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Example of how damages affect the brain in example the frontal cortex, he went through and big personality change, from responsible to being an ass.

Question 19

Brain stem

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Structures associated with automatic processes

Ex heart rate breathing

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Limbic system

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Involves motivation, emotion, memory

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Cerebrum

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Largest part of the brain, integrates sensory information, coordinates movements, facilitates thinking and reasoning(includes cerebral cortex)

Ex) putting movement together to accomplish walking

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The three interconnected layers of the brain

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Brain stem, limbic system, cerebrum

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Cerebellum means/known for

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(Little brain) known for being helpful in fine motor movement

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The brain stem includes

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Medulla, pons, cerebellum

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Medulla

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Centre for breathing, blood pressure, amd heart beat

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Pons

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Provides input to other brain stem structures and cerebellum, sometimes called the bridge

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Cerebellum

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Coordinate bodily movements, controls posture, maintains equilibrium, involved in implicit motor learning

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What does maintaining equilibrium means in cerebellum

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Means maintaining balance

Question 29

The limbic system

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Surrounds brain stem | Includes the hippocampus, the amygdala, and the hypothalamus

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The hippocampus

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Structure for memory formation | Eg. H.M had short term memory, learning someone’s name

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Amygdala

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Controls emotion, aggression, and acquisition and retention of emotional information in memory Eg, helps people remember emotional events

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Hypothalamus

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Regulates motivated behaviour Eg.eating, temp, sexual arousal -maintains homeostasis -interfaces pituitary gland

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Cerebral cortex structures

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Frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, temporal lobe

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Cerebrum

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2/3 of the total mass of the brain | Includes the cerebral cortex, a thalamus, the cerebral hemispheres, the the corpus Callosum

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Cerebral cortex

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The outer layer of neurons | -Composed of billions of neurons

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Thalamus

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Relays incoming sensory information to the appropriate area of the cerebral cortex -translates information from the periphery into the form that can be used by the cortex

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Cerebral hemisphere

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Symmetrical halves the brain is divided into | -The brain also contains groups the divide it vertically and horizontally

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Corpus callosum

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Nerve fibres that send messages between the two brain hemispheres

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Primary Somatosensory area

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Touch information,feeling and where Eg. Texture, pain, temperature, teeth -organized by body parts

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Primary motor area

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In charge or movements | Eg.moving your finger, lips

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Parietal lobe

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Responsible for sensation of touch, pain, temperature

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Occipital lobe

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Primarily involve official processes, contains visual cortex(primary visual area)

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Temporal lobe

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Process related to hearing , contains auditory cortex

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Frontal lobe

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Involved in motor control and cognitive activities such as planning, decision-making, goalsetting, and personality

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Specific cerebral cortex/primary motor system

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Motor cortex, somatosensory cortex, association cortex

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Association cortex

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Interprets and Integrates integrates information from various sensory modalities(different modes) used to play in appropriate response to stimuli Eg.handwriting

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What is the Output and the input of a sensory motor cortex

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The output is the motor cortex, (controls body right side) the input is the sensory cortex (Receives input from right side)

Question 48

What body part is in the motor cortex but not in the sensory cortex?

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Teeth, gums, genitals because these don’t move but they feel

Question 49

Places with more fine motor movement/ control needs more space in the _______ to function

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Brain

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auditory cortex

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Processing information for hearing, lobe by the ear

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Visual cortex

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Processing information for seeing, back of the head to

Question 52

What are the language areas of the cortex:aphasia

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1. visual 2. angular gyrus 3. wernickes area 4. brocas area 5. motor

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Visual cortex Language area

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Receives written words as visual stimulation

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Angular Gyrus Language area

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Transforms visual representations into an auditory code

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Wernickes area Language area

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Interprets auditory code

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Brocas area Language area

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Control speech Muscles via the motor cortex

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Motor cortex language area

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Word is pronounced

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Aphasia

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The impairment of language usually caused by left hemisphere damage

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Damage in the Broca’s area

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Impaired speaking

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Damage to wernikes

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Impaired understanding

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Language areas

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Brain activity when hearing seeing and speaking words, using scan you can demonstrate specialization an integration of brain functions