Vocabulary
Define Brain Stem
What is the brainstem connects the brain to the spinal cord and controls basic functions like breathing and heart rate.
(T/F) The corpus callous connects the left and right hemispheres?
What is true
Where are the Pons located?
what is superior to the brain stem and inferior to the midbrain
What do the nuclei in the brain stem control? List 3.
what is heart rate, respiration and blood pressure?
The branches of the neuron are called
Dendrites
Define the Latin meaning of Colliculi
Lower Hills
The cerebral Cortex contain what brain matter?
What is gray matter
The frontal lobe is ______ to the occipital lobe.
What is anterior?
The function of the afferent neuron?
what is sending mechanical energy into the central nervous system
what is another name for Cell body?
What is Soma
Define Afferent neuron and Efferent neuron
An afferent neuron carries sensory information from the body to the brain.
An efferent neuron carries motor signals from the brain to the muscles.
How many bumps does the midbrain have?
What is four
The cerebellum is ______ to the cerebrum
What is inferior?
What are the four functions of the Cerebrum
What is coordination, balance, muscle tone and little brain.
List the part of a neuron in order
What is Dendrites, soma,, axon hillock, axon, axon terminals
Name 4 types of lateral functions?
what are bilateral, ipsilateral, unilateral, and contralateral
what are the name of the four bumps in the midbrain? And there individual name?
What is Corpora Quadrigemina and superior and inferior Colliculi
The brainstem is ______ to the cerebrum.
What is inferior?
list the 5 components of a reflex arc
what is receptors, afferent, control center, motor neuron and effector
what cranial nerves are seen in the lateral view of the brain?
cranial nerve I & Cranial nerve II
Define the Functions of all lobes
The frontal lobe controls movement and thinking. The parietal lobe processes touch. The temporal lobe helps with hearing and understanding language. The occipital lobe is for vision.
The temporal lobes are ______ to the parietal lobes.
What is lateral?
The thalamus is ______ to the cerebral cortex.
What is deep
what two areas in the limbic system work together with emotions?
What is the amygdala and hippocampus
what are the 5 older parts of your brain
what is the telencephalon, diencephalon, mesencephalon, metencephalon, and myelencephalon