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Pathways that transmit information via action potentials from the peiphery to various parts of the brain

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Ascending tracts

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Conscious awareness of stimuli

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Perception

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Deals with pain, temperature, light touch, pressure, tickle, itch sensation

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Spinothalamic

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Transmits action potentials DEALING WITH TOUCH, POSITION, AND PRESSURE

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Dorsal column

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Transmits informatiom about body position to the cerebellum; proprioception to the cerebellum

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Spinocerebellar

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Have cell bodies in the cerebral cortex

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Upper motor neurons

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Have cell bodies in the anterior horn of spinal cord

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Lower motor neurons

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Posterior to central sulcus

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Primary somatic sensory cortex

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Controls voluntary motor movement

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Primary motor cortex

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Involves in motivation and regulation of emotional behavior and mood

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Prefrontal area

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Involved in the process of recognition

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Association

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Pathways that control different types of movement

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Descending tract

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Responsible for maintaining the body’s posture and balance

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Somatic motor system

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No conscious thought

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Involuntary

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Consciously activated

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Voluntary

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Group of functionally related nuclei

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Basal nuclei

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Located deep within cerebrum

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Corpus striatum

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Group of darkly pigmented cells in the midbrain

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Substantia nigra

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The major function of a cerebellum is that of a ______

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Comparator

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Connection between two hemispheres

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Commisures

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The largest commisure

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Corpus callosum

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A broad band of nerve tracts at the base of longitudinal fissure

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Corpus callosum

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Involved in functions such as 3D or spatial perception and mysic ability

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Right hemisphere

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Involved more analytics, mathematic ability, and speech

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Left cerebral hemisphere

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Another term for sensory speech
Wernicke area
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in parietal lobe; functions in understanding and formulating coherent speech
Sensory speech / Wernicke area
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Another term for motor speech
Broca Area
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Controls movement necessary for speech
Motor speech / Broca area
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Electrodes placed on a person's scalp to record brain's electrical activity
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
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Called the wavelike patterns
Brain waves
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Normal person is awake but in a quiet resting state; eyes closed
Alpha waves
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Occur during intense mental activity;have higher frequency than alpha
Beta Waves
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Occur during deep sleep; in infants and patients with severe brain disorders
Delta waves
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Common in children, may occur in adults with frustration or certain brain disorders
Theta waves
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Three types of storage of memory
Working Short term Long term
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Task associated memory that is recquired for immediate performance of task
Working memory
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This memory can only last for a few seconds to munutes
Working memory
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Can last/retain information for a few minutes to a few days
Short term memory
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It can be restored for a few minutes or become permanent by ______
Consolidation
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Can store for a few minutes or become permanent
Long term memory
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Involves the retention of facts, such as names, dates, and places
Declarative memory / explicit memory
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Involves development of motor skills; only small amount of this memory is lost over time
Procedural memory / Reflexive memory
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Involve in long term-term retention of a given piece of information
Memory engrams / Memory traces
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Protects the brain and spinal cord
Meninges
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Three types of meninges
Dura mater Arachnoid mater Pia mater
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The most superficial and thickest of the meninges
Dura Mater
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The space between the dura mater and vertebrae
Epidural space
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'very thin, wispy second layer' of meninges
Arachnoid mater
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Space between dura and arachnoid mater
Subdural space
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Very tightly bound to the surface of brain and spinal cord
Pia mater
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Space between the arachnoid and pia mater
Subarachnoid space
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A space that is filled with cerebrospinal fluid (csf) and contains blood vessels
Subarachnoid space
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Spinal block
Anesthesia
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Spinal tap
Take a sample of cerebrospinal fluid
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Fluid filled cavities of CNS
Ventricles
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Bathes and provides cushion around the cns
Cerebrospinal fluid
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What plexus produces the cerebrospinal fluid?
Choroid plexus
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How many cranial nerves?
12
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Vision
Optic
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Smell
Olfactory
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4-6 extrinsic eye muscle; contricts pupil
Oculomotor
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One extrinsic eye muscle
Trochlear Abducens
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Sensory to face and teeth; motor to muscles of mastication (chewing)
Trigeminal
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Hearing and balance
Vestibulocochlear
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Facial expression , taste, tears, salivqry
Facial
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Touch to back of tongue
Glossopharyngeal
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S: pharynx, larynx, and viscera
Vagus
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Move to two neck and upper muscles
Accessory
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Motor to tongue muscles
Hypoglossal
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Divided into special senses (vision) and more general senses
Sensory function
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Subdivided into somatic motor and parasympathetic
Motor function
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Consists of motor neurons that carry action potentials from cns to periphery
Autonomic nervous system
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Flight or fight
Sympathetic
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Prepares the body for physical activity
Sympathetic
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Read and digest
Parasympathetic
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Stimulates involuntary activities of body at rest
Read and digest / parasympathetic
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Plexuses within the wall of the digestive tract
Enteric nervous system
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Absent or defective speech or language comprehension
Aphasia
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Bleeding into the subdiral space
Subdural hematoma
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Accumulation of csf in the ventricles
Hydrocephalus
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Known as cerebrovascular accident (cva) that results to tissue
Stroke

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