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Parts of the brain
Knowing the Brain
Exterior parts of the Brain
Interior parts of the brain
100
makes up the grey matter in the brain
What are cell bodies?
100
processes sound, language, memory, and smell
What is the temporal lobe?
100
90% of sensory and motor neurons decussate here
What is the medulla oblongata?
100
it's used almost exclusively for visual processing
What are the occipital lobes?
100
integrates, projects, and regulates sensory information and relays it to the cortex and other parts of the brain
What's the thalamus?
200
the two types of cells that compose the CNS
What are neurons and glial cells?
200
The oldest part of the brain that controls many basic functions.
What is the brain stem?
200
The most common cause of left neglect.
What's damage to the right hemisphere?
200
another name for the superior temporal gyrus
What is BA 41, A1, the primary auditory cortex
200
The cerebrum and the cerebellum also send signals to the what ?
Thalamus
300
makes up the white matter in a brain
What are axons?
300
a part of the brain inferior the the occipital lobe responsible for fine-motor movements
cerebellum
300
Everything that isn't the brain or spinal cord.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
300
It's posterior to the central sulcus
What is the primary somatosensory cortex?
post-central gyrus
300
What is is called when the hypothalamus monitors the internal system to maintain the normal state of body
homeostasis
400
an electrical transition of neuro transmitters into the synaptic space
What is an action potential?
400
___ is inferior to the thalamus and plays a major role in controlling the autonomic nervous system
hypothalamus
400
B in this figure
What is the hypothalamus?
400
Also known as broca's area
What is BA 44?
400
It's not responsible for initiating motor movement, but it does modulate and fine tune it.
basal ganglia
500
They produce the myelin sheath in the CNS.
What are Oligodendrogial cells?
500
Located above the brainstem and below the cerebrum lies a collection of structures referred as the
limbic system
500
Alien hand conflict and split brain syndrome.
What are symptoms caused by damage to the corpus collosum?
500
The unlabeled portion of this figure.
What is the inferior parietal lobule?
500
It's called a lobe, but it's more like a system.
What is limbic?