Parts Of The Brain Flashcards
1
Q
Frontal lobe
A
- Planning
- Behavior regulation
- Learning new tasks
- emotions
- judgement
- ideation, abstraction
- Broca’s area
2
Q
Parietal lobe
A
- taste
- temperature
- spatial area
- touch
- pain
- prop
- sensation
all from opposite side of body
3
Q
Occipital lobe
A
Visual perception
4
Q
Temporal lobe
A
Auditory function
- Wernicke’s area: language comprehension
5
Q
insula
A
visceral functions
6
Q
limbic system
A
- instincts
- emotions
- feeding
- aggression
- sex
- long term memories
7
Q
thalamus
A
- 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
8
Q
subthalamus
A
- sensory
- motor
- reticular function
9
Q
hypothalamus
A
ANS
- homeostasis
- body temp
- eating
- water balance
- anterior pituitary function
- sex
- emotion
10
Q
pineal gland
A
circadian rhythm (sleep/wake cycle)
11
Q
epithalamus
A
integrate olfactory, visceral, somatic afferent pathyways (sensations)
12
Q
cerebellum
A
balance & coordination
- posture, voluntary movement control (akinesia if impaired), smooth coordination of voluntary movements (dysmetria if impaired)
13
Q
L brain
A
- logic
- speech
- verbal processing, auditory information
14
Q
R bran
A
- emotional lability
- nonverbal memory
- visual spatial processing
- unilateral neglect & spatial dysfunction w/CVA
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