Details Title: Brain Description: Function Total Flash Cards: 15 Created: 09/11/2007 17:59:20		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Physiology Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term hypothalamus Function Definition Hormone Production and regulation Functions is homeostasis, or maintaining feeding blood pressure, body temperature fluid and electrolyte balance body weight are held to a precise value called the set-point. Term Amygdala Function Definition plays a key role in integrating the components that comprise anxiety and fear. Lesions of the Amygdala produce a tame animal Emotions Term Basal ganglia Function Definition motor Term Cerebrum Function Definition Conscious thought processes, intellectual functions, memory storage and retrieval Term Occipital lobe Function Definition Visual cortex Term Temporal lobe Function Definition Auditory Olfactory cortex Term Parietal Lobes Function Definition Cognition Information Processing Pain and Touch Sensation Spatial Orientation Speech Visual Perception Term Frontal Lobes Function: Definition Motor Functions Higher Order Functions Planning Reasoning Judgement Impulse Control Memory Term Occipital Lobes Function: Definition Controls Vision Color Recognition Term Thalamus Definition processing centers sensory information relay (Not smell) Term Hippocampus Function: Definition Consolidation of New Memories Emotions Navigation Spatial Orientation Term Basal Ganglia Definition Caudate nucleus – input, voluntary movement Putamen input, voluntary movement Globus pallidus – output, voluntary movement Communicates between cerebral cortex and peripheral nervous system about bodies motor activity balance and excitatory and inhibitory neurons Term Mindbrain Definition Controls eye movement muscle skeletal and contains contains the substantia nigra, reticular activating system that screens and regulate stimuli If damaged cant sleep Term Substantia Nigra Function: Definition Controls Voluntary Movement and fine motor movement Regulates Mood Produces the Neurotransmitter Dopamine ***Damage present with parcansonnian sign and symptoms*** Term limbic system structures: Definition Amygdala Hippocampus Hypothalamus Thalamus