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| axon fibers connecting the two cerebral hemispheres |
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| relays messages between lower brain centers and cerebral cortex |
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| controls maintenance functions such as eating, helps govern endocrine system, linked to emotion and reward. |
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Reticular Formation
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| controls heartbeats and breathing |
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| pathway for neural fibers,traveling to and from brain; controls simple reflexes |
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| coordinates voluntary movement and balance and supports memories |
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| ultimate conrtol and information processing center |
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The Limbic System
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Made of:
The Hippocampus
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Coordinates:
§emotions such as fear and aggression.
§basic drives such as hunger and sex.
§the formation of episodic memories. |
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The Hypothalamus
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§lies below (“hypo”) the thalamus.
§regulates body temperature and ensures adequate food and water intake (homeostasis), and is involved in sex drive.
directs the endocrine system via messages to the pituitary gland |
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| (also known as a nerve fiber) is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that typically conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's |
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The Cerebral Cortex
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involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgments |
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| Includes the sensory cortex |
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include the visual areas; they receive visual information from the opposite visual field |
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include the auditory processing areas |
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Output: Motor cortex (Left hemisphere section controls the body’s right side)
Axons receive motor signals FROM the cortex |
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Input: Sensory cortex (Left hemisphere section receives input from the body’s right side)
Axons sending sensory information TO the cortex
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| deals with visualinformation |
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| handles auditory information |
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| one of the two parts of the cerebral cortex linked since the late nineteenth century to speech |
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| The visual cortex of the brain is the part of the cerebral cortex responsible for processing visual information |
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| A region of the inferior parietal lobe of the brain that is involved in the processing of auditory and visual input and in the comprehension of language. |
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| Motor cortex is a term that describes regions of the cerebral cortex involved in the planning, control, and execution of voluntary movements. |
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| Broca's area is a region of the brain with functions linked to speech production |
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Thoughts and logic
Details such as “trees”
Language: words and definitions
Linear and literal
Calculation
Pieces and details
Analytical
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Building blocks of the mind
§and how they communicate (neurotransmitters) |
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The Cells life support center |
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Recieve Messages from other cells. |
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Passes messages away from the cell body to other nuerons, muscles and glands. |
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Action Potential,Electircal signal traveling down the Axon |
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Terminal Branches Of the Axon |
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Form Junctions with other cells |
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Covers the axons of some nuerons,
and helps speed neural impluses. |
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Are Chemicals that send messages over the synaptic gap |
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The central nervous system [CNS] consists of the brain and spinal cord.
The CNS makes decisions for the body. |
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The peripheral nervous system [PNS] consists of ‘the rest’ of the nervous system.
The PNS gathers and sends information to and from the rest of the body. |
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| carry messages IN from the body’s tissues and sensory receptors to the CNS for processing. |
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carry instructions OUT from the CNS out to the body’s tissues
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(in the brain and spinal cord) process information between the sensory input and motor output. |
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NS arouses
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NS calms
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refers to a set of glands that produce chemical messengers called hormones.
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The Limbic (“Border”) System |
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The limbic system coordinates:
§emotions such as fear and aggression.
§basic drives such as hunger and sex.
§the formation of episodic memories.
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The lobes consist of:
§outer grey “bark” structure that is wrinkled in order to create more surface area for 20+ billion neurons.
§inner white stuff—axonslinking parts of the brain.
180+ billion glial cells, which feed and protect neurons and assist neural transmission |
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involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgments |
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include the sensory cortext
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include the visual areas; they receive visual information from the opposite visual field |
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include the auditory processing areas |
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The Brain is Flexible
if injured at a young age it is able to heal itself |
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“our awareness of ourselves and our environment.” |
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| when our brains are focused on something else we miss seeing something that would otherwise seem obvious. Ex. Gorilla |
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| 24 hour sleep cycle, Light and dark cycle. |
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Non Rem Sleep
Getting deeper into sleep but not yet dreaming |
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90 minute sleep cycles, the older you get the more waking less Rem sleeping you do |
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While falling asleep hallucinations |
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Awake
Relaxed breathing slows
Brain waves become slwoer and irregular
Hypnagoic Halucanations
Your Brain moves from alpha waves to nrem waves |
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Persistant inablity to fall and stay asleep |
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(“numb seizure”): sleep attacks, even a collapse into REM/paralyzed sleep, at inopportune times |
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(“with no breath”): repeated awakening after breathing stops; time in bed is not restorative sleep |
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Hypnosis is a social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggests to another (the subject) that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur. |
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Theories Explaining Hypnosis |
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Divided Consciousness Theory
Hypnosis is a special state of dissociated (divided) consciousness of our dual-track mind.
Social Influence Theory
Hypnotic subjects may simply be imaginative people who go along with the “subject” role they have agreed to play. |
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chemicals introduced into the body which alter perceptions, mood, and other elements of conscious experience. |
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§Opiates work at receptor sites for the body’s natural pain reducers (endorphins). |
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