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| all life functions needed for life, breathing heartbeat, circulation |
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| a nerve network in the brainstem that regulates sleep, wakefullness, and levels of arousal. |
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| It helps coordinate voluntary movements and balance. |
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| Orientates an organism to a stimulus in the environment. Receives sensory input from the eyes, ears, and skin and moves the organism in a coordinated way toward the stimulus. |
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| Also involved in orientation. Also involved in reward seeking and motivation. |
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| the brain’s sensory switchboard, located on top of the brainstem. It directs messages to the sensory areas in the cortex. |
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| is a doughnut-shaped system of neural structures at the border of the brainstem and cerebrum, associated with emotions such as fear, aggression and drives for food and sex. It includes the hippocampus, amygdala, and hypothalamus. |
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| consists of two almond-shaped neural clusters linked to the emotions of fear and anger (almond shaped cluster) |
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| involved in the formation of new memories. |
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| lies below (hypo) the thalamus. It directs several maintenance activities like eating, drinking, sexual behavior, body temperature, and control of emotions. It helps govern the endocrine system via the pituitary gland. |
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Sends signals to the basal ganglia, cerebellum, and spinal cord. • Left motor cortex controls right side of body, and vice-versa.
sensory cortex. located in the frontal lobe. |
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| is the impairment of language, usually on the left side of the brain to either the broa’s area, (impaired speaking) or the wernicke’s area (impaired understanding) |
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| Processes visual information. |
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| Processes auditory information including higher-order auditory processing involved in understanding speech (Wernicke’s area). |
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| Contains the Sensory Cortex (a.k.a. somatosensory cortex), which receives sensory input for touch, temperature, and body position. |
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| (magnetic resonance imaging) uses magnetic fields to produce computer-generated images that distinguish among different types of brain tissue |
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| (positron emission tomography) Scan is a visual display of brain activity that detects a radioactive form of glucose while the brain performs a given task. |
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| (functional magnetic resonance imaging) uses magnetic fields to detect oxygenated hemoglobin molecules in active areas of the brain. |
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