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| relay and processing centers for sensory information |
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| diencephalon: hypothalamus |
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| centers controlling emotions, autonomic functions, and hormone production, pituitary gland located in this region |
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| processing for visual and auditory data, generation of reflexive somatic motor responses, maintenance of consciousness |
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relays sensory information to cerebellum and thalamus,
subconscious somatic and visceral motor centers |
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| relays sensory info to thalamus and other portions of the brain stem, autonomic centers for regulation of visceral function (cardiovascular, respiratory, and digestive system activities |
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| coordinates complex somatic motor patterns, adjusts output of other somatic motor centers in brain and spinal cord |
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| diencephalon: epithalamus |
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| contains the hormone-secreting pineal gland |
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| medial partition that separates the lateral ventricles |
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| inter ventricular foramen |
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| each lateral ventricle communicates with the ventricle of the diencephalon |
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| the slender canal of the mesencephalon that connects the third ventricle with the fourth ventricle |
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| begins between the pons and cerebellum, ___ is cont. with the central canal of the spinal cord, circulation of CSF from the ventricles and central canal into the subarachnoid space through foramina in the roof of the ventricles |
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| depression on brain surface |
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| arched fold of the dura mater that descends vertically in the longitudinal fissure betwen the cerebral hemispheres |
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| an extension of dura mater that separates the cerebellum from the inferior portion of the occipital lobes |
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| small triangular process of the dura mater recieved into the posterior cerebellar notch |
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posterior: oxytocin, ADH (vasopressin)
anterior: tropic hormones |
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| structure of the forebrain involved in olfaction |
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| bundle of axons from the olfactory bulb to smell cortexin |
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| place where the left and right optic nerves cross |
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| connects the pituitary to the hypothalamus |
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| located on the floor of the hypothamus immediatley posterior to the pituitary gland, motor nuclei that control reflex movements such as chewing and swallowing, assoc. with eating |
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| involved in regulation of daily day-night cycle, secretes melatonin |
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| in the brain, reflex center for vision and hearing , four colliculi (inferior/superior) |
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| tract that connects hippocampus to the mammillary bodies |
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| band of commissural fibers that allows communication between left and right hemispheres |
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| arbor vitae of cerebellum |
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| branching mass of white matter (that resembles a tree) |
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| the lid of the diencephalon |
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| contains CSF continuous with the ventricles of the brain |
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| deep groove separating the left and right sides of the spinal cord |
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| groove separating left and right sides of the spinal cord |
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| posterior gray commissure |
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| a tract that connects (crosses over) left and right sides of the spinal cord (brain) |
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| a tract that connects left and right sides of the spinal cord |
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| composed of cell bodies of interneurons, interneurons connect afferent sensory neurons with efferent motor neurons |
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| region composed primarily of cell bodies of autonomic motor neurons |
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| region composed primarily of cell bodies of somatic motor neuons |
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| ventral root of spinal nerve |
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| contains axons of somatic motor neurons, these are outgoing axons taking information away from the CNS |
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| dorsal root of spinal nerve |
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| contains axons of sensory neurons, these are incoming axons carrying information toward the CNS |
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| contains the cell bodies of sensory neurons, the sensory neurons synapse with interneurons |
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