The Brain Pt 2

Question 1

what is responsible for the integration of conscious and unconscious sunsory information and motor commands?

Answer 1

diencephalon

Question 2

what consists of the epithalamus, thalamus and hypothalamus

Answer 2

diencephalon

Question 3

what contains the pineal gland and chorid plexus?

Answer 3

the epithalamus

Question 4

what does the pineal fland produce?

Answer 4

melatonin

Question 5

what filters and projects somatic and special sensory information to cerebrum?

Answer 5

thalamus

Question 6

T: Lateral geniculate nucleus:

Answer 6

projects visual info to visual cortex

Question 7

T: Medial geniculate nucleus:

Answer 7

projects auditory info to auditory cortex

Question 8

what is responsible for: Motor control: relay between cerebral cortex, basal nuclei, and cerebellum (ventral nuclei)

Answer 8

thalamus

Question 9

what Influences emotions (anterior, medial, and lateral nuclei contribute to limbic system)?

Answer 9

thalamus

Question 10

what is responsible for neurosecretory coordination?

Answer 10

hypothalamus

Question 11

what responds to neural stimuli, hormones, blood/CSF chemical stimuli?

Answer 11

hypothalamus

Question 12

what has the major functions of autonomic coordination, physiological drives(hunger and thirst), memory, regulaiton of body temp, circadian rythyms, and emotional behavior and sexual responsw?

Answer 12

hypothalamus

Question 13

what coordinates information between cerebraum and diencephalon?

Answer 13

the limbic system

Question 14

what has the functions of establishing emotional state and rives, as well as linking cerebrum (conscious) with brainstem (unconscious), mitivation and drive, as well as memory retreival?

Answer 14

limbic system

Question 15

of the limbic system what does the amygdaloid body do?

Answer 15

emotions–> memory

Question 16

of the limbic system what does the hippocampus do?

Answer 16

memory storage and retreival

Question 17

what cointains the basal nuclei and cerebral cortex?

Answer 17

the gray matter of the cerebrum

Question 18

what is responsible for neural wiring, prijection, commissural, and association tracts?

Answer 18

the cerebrum white matter

Question 19

what processes sensory information, directs control over subconscious movement and indirect control and modification of conscious movement?

Answer 19

basal nuclei

Question 20

what has two distinct hemispheres?

Answer 20

cerebral cortex

Question 21

what is coordinated by the corpus collasum and has specific areas that control specific functions?

Answer 21

cerebral cortex

Question 22

what is it called when there is a stroke in Wernickes area(general interpreatation) and people can speak bun dont understand?

Answer 22

receptive aphasia

Question 23

what is it called when there is a stroke in Broca’s area(speech) and people can understand but cant speak?

Answer 23

expressive aphasia