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the oldest part and central core of the brain
responsible for automatic survival functions |
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| controls heartbeat and breathing |
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| a nerve network that plays an important part in arousal |
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| helps coordinate movements |
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| brain's sensory switchboard |
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coordinating balance and movement output
also processing sensory imput |
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doughnut shapes
associated with emotions such as fear and aggression and drives such as food and sex |
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| amygdala (part of ___ ___) |
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(limbic system)
linked to emotion |
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| hypothalamus (part of ___ ___) |
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(limbic system)
body maintenance; drinking, eating, body temperature |
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| body's ultimate control and info processing centre |
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| protect and nourish and support neurons |
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| (cerebral cortex) involved in making plans and judgments, speaking, and muscle movements |
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| (cerebral cortex) receives sensory input for body position and touch |
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(cerebral cortex) includes the auditory areas
timpani/temporal |
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| (cerebral cortex) includes visual areas |
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| (cerebral cortex) (frontal lobes) controls voluntary movements |
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| (cerebral cortex) (parietal lobe) registers and processes body touch and movement sensations |
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| (cerebral cortex) areas non involved in primary motor or sensory functions, but rather, in higher mental functions such as learning, remembering, speaking, and thinking |
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| impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area or Wernicke's area |
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language - directs the muscle movements involved in speech, and thus, language expression
(frontal lobe) |
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controls language reception, comprehension, and expression
(left temporal lobe) |
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| band of neural fibres connecting the two hemispheres and carrying messages between them |
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