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| What parts of the brain do reptiles have? |
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| What parts of the brain do paleomammalians have? |
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| hindbrain, midbrain, and limbic system |
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| What parts of the brain do neomammalians have? |
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| hindbrain, midbrain, limbic system, and cerebral cortex |
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| When does the nervous system begin forming in humans? |
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| two weeks after conception |
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| How much does the nervous system weight? |
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| The nervous system has the most neurons it will ever have when? |
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| What connects the brain and spinal cord? |
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| This part of the brain is important in relaying and integrating auditory and visual information. |
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| this part of the brain allows you to tell the direction of a sound |
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| this part of the brain coordinates eye movement to track a sound |
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| Describe the substantia nigra and tell where it is located. |
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| It is located in the midbrain. It is involved in motor control. It has many dopamine neurons. it is darkly pigmented. |
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| Degeneration of dopamine neurons here occurs in Parkinson's disease. |
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| The seat of emotion, motivation, appetite, fear, curiosity, learning and memory |
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| This forms a border around the brain |
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| What is included in the limbic system? |
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| The amygdala, thalamus and hypothalamus. |
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| The structure and function of the ___ are blurred which means that the boundaries are not fixed or definite. |
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| The limbic system is closely linked with what? |
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| emotional response, reward, aversion, and short-term memory storage |
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| rounded mass of cell bodies. |
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| This is the central sensory relay system in the brain. receives and transmits sensory information, except for smell, olfaction. |
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| There ___ a thalamus in each hemisphere of the brain |
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| tiny peanut size structure in the forebrain. |
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| Regulates emotional behavior |
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| regulates motivated behavior like eating, drinking mating, ext. |
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| most important link in the endocrine system |
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| involved in negative emotions like fear, anger and discust |
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| has an important role in positive emotions, like sociability, sexual attraction, and sexual responses. |
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| helps us form associations between events, including social actions |
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| helps us assign emotions to events |
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| destroying the ___ in monkeys makes them loose the ability to do many things |
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| involved in our ability to make new memories--like where you parked your car |
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| encases the other two parts of the brain. It is the grey condulated spongy matter |
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| What is the cerebral cortex involved in doing? |
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| planning, self-awareness, language, thinking in past and future, receiving sensory input, and interpreting and perceiving. |
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| This is the grey, spongy matter on the outer covering of the brain |
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| this is the bark of the brain, as in the outer covering |
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| How thick is the cerebral cortex? |
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| no more than 3 ml. or 1/4 of an inch |
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| This part of the brain contains no less than 70% of the total CNS neurons. |
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| ridges and valleys in the cerebral cortex |
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| In what part of the brain is there corticalization? |
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| What is the purpose of corticalization in the cerebral cortex? |
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| it compacts more surface area into a smaller space, so that you get more in less space. |
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| The cerebral cortex is divided into ___, which are connected by ___. |
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| two hemispheres; a thick band of fibers |
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| a thick band of fibers that connects the two hemispheres |
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| Where is the corpus callosum located? |
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| name the four lobes of the cerebral cortex. |
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| temporal, occipital, parietal, and frontal |
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| the lobe mostly responsible for hearing and language |
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| the lobe mostly responsible for vision |
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| the brain area that is associated with the reception of bodily sensations |
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| this lobe plays a major roll in the skin senses of touch, temperature, and pressure. |
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| The ___ in the parietal lobe devotes more space to areas of the body that are more sensitive to touch. Lips, hands, ext command more space because they are more sensitive. |
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| Lobe associated with the control of movement. |
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| Lobe associated with higher mental functions |
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| More area of the ___ (located in the ___ lobe) is associated with things that are more important for movement. Hands would have more area on the strip that feet would. |
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| The higher mental functions that the frontal lobe controls include intellectual tasks such as ___ |
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| reasoning, planning, anticipating, worrying |
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| Damage to the frontal lobe will cause what? |
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| patients to respond with the same answers over and over again |
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| any part of the cerebral cortex that is not sensory or motor in functioning. Combines things from various senses |
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| This cortex is involved with higher mental abilities. |
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| Specialization occurs in the ___ |
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