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| how does the brain develop? |
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| from hindbrain to forebrain |
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| what is the brain covered with? |
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| thin, lays right on top of brain |
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| web like, on surface of the brain |
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| what is in the hindbrain? |
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| medulla, pans, and the cerebellum |
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| heart rate, breathing, sneezing, coughing, allows you to vomit, helps trigger defensive posture |
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| sleep, arousal, dreaming, fibers connect brainstem/medulla to cerebellum |
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| what is in the mid brain? |
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| tectum, tegmentum, and the reticular formation |
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| 4 bumps (superior colliculi-oreint visual stimuli in space; inferior colliculi-orient auditory stimuli in space) |
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| strip below rectum, important for integrating sensory information (visual and auditory especially) |
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| fibers through midbrain to forebrain, important for sleep and arousal |
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| what is in the forebrain? |
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| thalamus, hypothalamus, limbic system, cerebrum |
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| giant relay center, almost all sensory information passes through, literally means inner chamber |
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| under thalamus, important for eating (controls when we start and stop) ifs (feeding, fighting, fleeing, mating) |
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important for emotion, memory, and motivation
several parts: hippocampus (important for memory, consolidating short term into longterm), amygdala (important for emotion and motivation, especially intense emotions) |
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| contralateral control, corpus callosum: thick band of fibers that connects the two hemispheres, 4 lobes divided by lateral fissure and central fissure (frontal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe, parietal lobe) |
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| primary auditory cortex, Wernicke's area (comprehends speech) |
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| sensory integration (information), spacial information |
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| important for personality, decision-making, problem-solving, planning, executing plans, language (broca's area-speech production), primary motor cortex |
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