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| cognition, expressive language, motor planning, math, working memory; executive functions, self-insight, emotion regulation |
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| sensory detection, perception and interpretation |
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| audition, language comprehension and LTM |
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| interpretation of visual stimuli |
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| perceptual/spatial info, abstract & creative, tonal inflections of language; left-side movement & sensory info |
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| language; controls right movement & right sensory information |
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| receives sensory data except olfaction, motor info; sleep/wake cycle, consciousness, works w/reticular formation, auditory/visual/motor/tactile processing; conscious and unconscious levels |
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| regulation of ANS, hormone release, temp, hunger, sleep/wake, works w/limbic |
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| dopamine cells, connects thalamus & basal ganglia |
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| GH (& other hormones), reproduction, metabolism |
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| stalk from hypothalamus to pituitary |
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| sexual/hormonal functions, sleep/wake cycle |
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| Posterior/Anterior Commissure |
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| allows communication between hemispheres |
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| communication between thalamic lobes |
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| sheath cover, emotion processing |
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thalamus
hypothalamus
epithalamus
subthalamus |
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| allows R & L hemisphere communication |
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| cross-shaped connection between optic nerves |
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| attach to hypothalamus, may play a role in emotion processing |
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Midbrain, Pons & Medulla
Controls vegetative function e.g. respiration, cough & gag, pupillary response, swallowing
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Auto reflexive behaviours dealing w/vision & audition
- cerebral peduncles: descending motor tracts
- interpeduncular fossa: mammillary bodies
- sup/inf colliculi: relay centers for vision & audition (aka tectum)
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relay system between SC, cerebellum & cerebrum; mediates unconscious motor info
- cerebellar peduncles: proprioception
- 4th ventricle: cont'd cerebral aqueduct
- corticospinal tracts: DMN
- mid/sup cerebellar peduncles: sensory from pons to cerebellum
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descending motor messages to SC & ascending sensory messages from SC
- pyramids: descending motor tracts/fiber bundles
- pyramidal decussation: crossing over between cortex & SC
- inferior olives: ascending sensory info
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| Reticular Activating System (RAS) |
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in the brainstem (rostral midbrain)
wakefullness |
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| Reticular Inhibiting System (RIS) |
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brainstem (caudal midbrain to caudal medulla)
unconsciousness |
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hollow spaces of the brain containing cerebrospinal fluid
forms from neural plate/tube
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one in ea. hemisphere
has 3 horns (ant/pos/inf) |
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| surrounded by diencephalon w/thalamus sides & hypothalamus floor |
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| continuation of cerebral aqueduct |
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clear, colourless liquid
bathes & nourishes brain & SC |
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seperate brain & skull, cover SC forming a seal around the CNS
3 layers (dura, arachnoid and pia) |
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outermost meningeal layer
tough & thick, attached to cranium
decrease linear & rotary forces on the brain |
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middle meningeal layer
web-like
seals the CNS |
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deepest meningeal layer
right on brain & SC |
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consists of meninges
exchanges nutrients btwn CNS & vascular system
controls entry into CNS (O2, sugars & amino acids)
ensures no exposure to toxins but also no drugs
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