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| bridge of fibres passing information betweeen the two cerebral hemispheres |
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limbic system
motivation and reward |
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regulates basic biological needs (hunger, thirst, temperature control)
- parasympathetic nervous system goes through |
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| master gland that regulates other endocrine glands |
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| sensory, attention, states of consciousness |
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| higher order sensory, motor and cognitive |
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relay centre for incoming sensory information
contains basal ganglia |
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surrounds thalamus
Parkinsons
voluntary muscle control (vs. cerebellum), movement |
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| sensing, thinking, learning, emotion, consciousness, and voluntary movement |
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limbic system (seat of emotion)
involved in emotion and aggression
can produce emotion w/o brain "knowing" |
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limbic system
learning and memory (long term) |
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coordinates fine muscle movement, balance
learning and memory |
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- hindbrain into midbrain
- group of fibres that carries stimulation related to sleep and arousal though the brain stem
- also stereotype patterns such as walking
- attention "gatekeeper"
- ascending: alerts higher centres that messages are coming
- descending: selectively blocks some inputs from admission to higher regions in the brain |
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regulates vital functions such as breathing and circulation
(respiration = automatic b/c of it) |
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involved in sleep ad arousal
helps control vital functions |
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primary motor cortex (contralateral)
speech (Broca's area - speech formation) |
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| front is somatic sensory cortex, primary receptive field for body sensations |
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| when either Broca's area or Wernike's area is damaged, the partial or total loss of ability to communicate occurs |
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| some functions are more prominent in one side of the brain than the other |
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understanding, logic, desire to explain
verbal, language
+ve emotions (damage makes you more -ve)
mathematical |
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spacial relations
melodies
-ve emotions
more spontaneity |
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measure verbal and non-verbal behaviours (known to be affected by brain damage)
Trail-Making Test = letter and # matching |
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| destruction and stimulation |
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known areas of damage are stimulated w/ electricity or chemicals
Wilder Penfield |
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| electrical recording (EEG) |
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records electrical activity of 1000s of neurons, some EEG patterns correspond to wakefulness and sleep
"tune into 'crowd noise' of neurons" |
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| positron emission tomography (PET scans) |
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| measures brain activity, blood flow, metabolism, neurotransmitter activity |
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| magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) |
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measures response to magnetic impulse
more sensitive than CT/PET
images are several minutes apart |
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can form images while doing tasks
images less than 1s apart |
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| hind, mid, fore, cerebral cortex |
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