Part 2 Flashcards

(36 cards)

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  • Largest of lobes, located right behind forehead

* Deals with intelligence, personality, logic, planning, and long term memory

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frontal lobe

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  • located BACK TOWARDS BOTTOM of brain

* deals w vision

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occipital lobe

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3
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  • located right above ears

* deals w hearing

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temporal lobe

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4
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  • located in temporal lobe in both hemispheres

* forms new memories

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hippocampus

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5
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  • located in both spheres, looks like an almond

* reactions to emotional situations

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amygdala

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  • located BACK TOWARDS TOP of brain

* deals w sensory info, chronological math, spatial abilities

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parietal lobe

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7
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  • located right below the occipital lobe

* deals w coordination and balance

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cerebellum

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8
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Connects brain to spinal cord

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brain stem

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9
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responds to sensory information and regulates the bodies responses to information
not physical

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midbrain

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10
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Physical, plays part in sleeping and dreaming

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pons

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Physical, helps in breathing, swallowing, blood pres

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medulla oblongata

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Controls the four f’s (fighting, fleeing, feeding, and fucking)

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hypothalamus

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13
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When more damage effects at the opp. end of impact

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contra coup

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14
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  • left hemisphere

* brain damage that effects speech

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aphasia

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15
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Inability to communicate word’s correctly

Ex: blabber

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broca’s aphasia

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16
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  • located in frontal lobe

* plays role in control of speech

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broca’s area

17
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  • located in temporal lobe

* deals w comprehension, speech input

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wernicke’s area

18
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Sound as if speaking fluently but doesn’t make any sense

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wernicke’s aphasia

19
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  • plays role in action of muscles, learning, memory and how quick brain cells function
  • causes muscles to contract
  • may cause Alzheimer’s Bc deficiency
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acetylcholine

20
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  • plays a part in movement, attention and learning
  • Parkinson’s disease=low
  • Schizophrenia= high
21
Q
  • interferes w acetylcholine

* makes you sleepy

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diphenhydramine

22
Q
  • plays a part in mood, sleeping, and eating

* depression=low

23
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Helps raise serotonin levels

24
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  • natural opiate

* helps block pain and enhance pleasure

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* calms brain from firing | * low levels= anxieties, seizures
GABA
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Bumps on our skull that tells about a person's personality, inspires the idea that parts of brain controls diff things
phrenology
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how much does the human brain weigh
Human brain weighs 3 lb
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nervous system Consists of brain and spinal cord
central nervous system
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* Connects CNS to rest of body | * consists of 2 divisions, somatic and autonomic
peripheral nervous system
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Sends info from brain and spinal cord to rest of body
somatic
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Controls internal functions i.e. Digestion, breathing, etc
autonomic
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Process verbal info
left hemisphere
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Processes nonverbal info
right hemisphere
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Helps Identify faces and platforms
fusiform gyrus
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Long, deep groove that divides the hemispheres
longitudinal fissure
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Deep in middle of brain, tick bend of neurons connect two hemispheres
corpus collosum