What is the brain lobe that is the most anterior in the brain?
100
Hippocampus
What is structure that is shaped like a seahorse and is involved with memory processing?
100
The outermost layer of grey matter making up the superficial aspect of the cerebrum.
What is the Cerebral Cortex?
100
The brainstem is responsible for automatic survival reflexes.
What is the function of the brainstem?
100
Primary Visual Cortex- sight, recognition of color, size, light, motion, etc Visual Association Area- interpret info from the primary visual cortex
What is the function of the Primary Visual Cortex and Visual Association Area?
200
Occipital Lobe
What is the lobe which function is to process, integrate, and interpret visual stimuli?
200
The Pituitary Gland
What is the gland that allows for hormone release?
200
Ridges "winding" around the brain.
What are gyri?
200
The medulla regulates breathing and heartbeat.
What does the medulla regulate?
200
Controls speech, facial neurons, and language comprehension
What is function of the Broca's Area?
300
Temporal Lobe
What is the lobe that's responsible for hearing?
300
SM was a patient that had an dysfunctional amygdala which made it so that she didn't experience fear or connect certain stimuli and memories to fear.
What is story of SM? What part of the limbic system was dysfunctional?
300
A sulcus is a small groove that divides the gyri while a fissure is a deep grove that divides a large region.
What is the differences between a sulcus and fissure?
300
The Reticular Formation functions in sleep and arousal from sleep.
What is the function of the Reticular Formation?
300
Processing touch and proprioceptive info
What is the function of the primary somatosensory cortex?
400
Spatial reasoning, plays in senses/sensations, and perception.
The Parietal Lobe function is...?
400
The main functions of the Limbic System is to link emotions and other basic motives. The structures that make up the Limbic System are the hippocampus, amygdala, pituitary gland, and hypothalamus.
What are the main function of the Limbic System and what structures make up the Limbic System?
400
The Longitudinal Fissure
What is the fissure that divides the two hemispheres?
400
Pons are used in sleeping, waking, and dreaming.
What are Pons involved in?
400
Language comprehension
What is Wernicke's Area function?
500
Examples may vary: Frontal- deciding if you should do your homework or not. Parietal Lobe- feeling how smooth the table is. Temporal Lobe- listening to music Occipital Lobe: looking at the notes on the board.
What is one example of using each lobe?
500
The hypothalamus regulates eating, thirst, body temperature, links to emotion and reward, and helps govern the endocrine system by controlling the pituitary gland.
What are all the functions of the hypothalamus?
500
The Transverse Fissure
What is the fissure that separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum?
500
The Reticular Formation is a connection of nerves that are located in the brainstem.
Where is the Reticular Formation located and what is it made of?
500
Broca's Aphasia- Decrease ability of speaking
Wernicke's Aphasia- Language comprehension is inhibited. Sentences and works aren't easily understood and inhibited sentence formation