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1
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What did Charles Bell discover?

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The distinction between the two branches of the facial nerve

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What does the nervous system do?

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It is the control centre of the body and it is responsible for receiving, processing, and transmitting information

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What does the Peripheral Nervous system do?

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Connect the CNS to the limbs and organs, essentially serving as a relay between the brain and spinal cord and the rest of the body

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What does the Autonomic nervous system do?

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It controls involuntary movements

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What does the Somatic nervous system do?

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It controls voluntary movements and sensory perceptions

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How do neurons transmit information?

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Through chemicals and electric signals

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What are the parts of the neuron?

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Dendrites, cell body/soma, and axon

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What do sensory neurons do?

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They transfer sensor info and perceive the world

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What do motor neurons do?

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They help carry out voluntary movements

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What do internurons do?

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They connect sensory and motor neurons. Rely signals and helps make decisions processing information

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What do Neuroglia do?

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They play a supporting role, these cells outnumber neurons and provide functions like structural integrity and supplying nutrients

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What are the lobes of the brain?

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Frontal, Parietal, Occipital, Temporal and Cerebellum

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What does the brain stem connect?

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The brain and spinal cord

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What does the brain stem do?

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Helps with breathing and digestion

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What does the left hemisphere of the brain do?

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Thinking in words, sequencing, linear thinking, mathematics, facts, logic

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What does the right hemisphere of the brain do?

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Feelings, visualization, intuition, rhythm, holistic thinking, arts

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What can you do to strengthen or weaken neural pathways?

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Use to strengthen and don’t use to weaken

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What are cranial nerves and how many are there?

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A network of 12 specialized nerves

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Where do cranial nerves originate from?

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They emerge from the brain (and not the spinal cord like other nerves)

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20
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What do mixed cranial nerves do?

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They have both motor and sensory functions that control heart rate and digestion.

21
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What does the facial nerve do?

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It carries both motor and sensory functions

22
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What does the optic nerve do?

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It carries info from the eye to the brain

23
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What disorder affects the facial nerve?

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Bell’s Palsy

24
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What disorders affect the optic nerve?

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Glaucoma and Optic neuritis

25
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What did Korbinian Brodmann discover?

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Different parts of the brain had very different neurological compositions (cellular) and it could hold the key to figuring out the brain’s specialisation

26
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What are the three primary brain vesicles?

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Forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain

27
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What does cephalon mean?

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Head

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What does the diencephalon do?

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The thalamus which is a relay station, sensory information goes there and is redirected. The hypothalamus regulates essential functions like cicadian rhythm and hunger

29
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Where is the telencephalon located and how developed is it?

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It is the outermost part of the brain and is the highly developed part.

30
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What does the midbrain/mesencephalon do?

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It is involved in visual and sensory information. Moves really fast and will take over in fearful situations

31
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What does the hindbrain do?

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Coordination and vital functions like automatic things like walking and tying shoes

32
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What does the Cerebellum/little brain do?

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Movements, balance, and posture. It also helps people with hand-based skills and motor coordination in general

33
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What does the Pons do?

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Regulates breathing and other things we don’t have to think about

34
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What does the Myelencephalon do?

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Takes over when a person is fearful. Controls vital things like breathing and heart rate

35
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What are Lobes?

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Organisational areas of the cortex

36
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What does the frontal lobe do?

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It has a crucial role in functions like problem-solving, moral reasoning, planning. Expression of our personality

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What does the temporal lobe do?

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Essential for auditory processing, memory formation, and language comprehension

38
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What does Wernicke’s area do?

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Helps understand spoken and written word

39
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What is Aphasia and what does it affect?

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It means you have difficulty comprehending language and it affects the temporal lobe

40
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What does the Hippocampus do?

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It is central to processing and helps with memory encoding and retrieval. Also, helps with facial recognition.

41
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What does the right temporal lobe do?

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Processing spatial information, emotional recognition, and understand others

42
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What does the occipital lobe do?

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Visual processing and sensory information.

43
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What is the first region to receive visual information?

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Primary visual cortex

44
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What happens when the occipital lobe is damaged?

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Visual agnosia where people struggle to recognize visual objects

45
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What is prosopagnosia?

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It means you can’t recognize faces

46
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What does the parietal lobe do?

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Sensory processing. attention, and spatial awareness. It also filters out distractions and processes numbers/math

47
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What does the Somato sensory cortex do?

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Processs tactile sensations from different parts of the body. Includes touch, temperature and pain

48
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What is the Cerebellum/little brain involved in?

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Attention, motor learning, language processing, and emotional regulation

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