Anatomy: Brain

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Neurons (nerve cells)

Back 1

Cells that allow the body to respond to internal and external stimuli

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CNS

Back 2

Processes info in the brain

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Cerebrum

Back 3

Performs higher functions like interpreting touch, vision and hearing, as well as speech, reasoning, emotions, learning, and fine control of movement.

Contains the major lobes of the brain and white/grey matter

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Corpus Callosum

Back 4

Allows communication between the left and right brain hemispheres

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Frontal L.

Back 5

Lobe that is important for voluntary movement and activity in, addition to cognitive functions

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Parietal L.

Back 6

Lobe that processes data related to taste, temp., And touch (sensory input)

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Occipital L.

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The lobe that is primarily responsible for vision

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Temporal L.

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The lobe responsible for comprehension, emotion, language, auditory, memory , sensory input, and vision

hearing and selective listening

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Brain Stem

Back 9

Connects cerebrum to spinal cord and controls critical involuntary body functions

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Cerebellum

Back 10

Part of brain in charge of cordination of muscle control and balance

Controls voluntary and involuntary movements

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Medulla

Back 11

Regulates breathing , swallowing, and heartbeat

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Spinal Cord

Back 12

Transmits nerve impulses from the body extremities to the brain

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PNS

Back 13

Includes all nerves that exist outside the CNS

Branches into somatic and autonomic

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Somatic Nervous System

Back 14

System that sends and receives signals from skeletal muscle

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Autonomic Nervous System

Back 15

Regulates body process the are not concious ( smooth and cardiac muscle and glandular secretions)

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Pons

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Contains nuclei that relay signals from the forebrain to cerebellum

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Midbrain

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Part of the brain that integrates sensory signals and organizes responses to these signals

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Cerbral cortex

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Part of the brain that plays a key role in attention,perception,thought,memory,

language and consciouness

the outer layer of neural tissue of the cerebrum

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Olfactory

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Smell nerve

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Optic

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Vision nerve

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Oculomotor

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Eyeball and eyelid movement nerve

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Trochlear

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Nerve involved with eyeball movement of the superior oblique.

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Trigeminal

Back 23

Facial touch and pain

Chewing

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Abducens

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Eyeball movement of lateral rectus

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Facial

Back 25

Face muscle movement, tear and saliva secretion and sense of taste

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Vestibulocochlear

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Hearing and equilibrium nerve

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Glossopharngeal

Back 27

>Taste and touch sensation and pain from tongue and pharynx

>chemoreceptors(monitor O2 and CO2)

>BP receptors

>tongue movement and swallowing

>saliva secretion

(Nerve)

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Vagus

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>parasym. Sensation and motor control of smooth muscle in heart, lungs ,and viscera

>digestive enzyme secretion

(Nerve)

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Accessory

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Head movement

Swallowing

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Hypoglossal

Back 30

Tongue movement , speech, and swallowing

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Muscle fatigue

Back 31

Muscle is exerted for a long time

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Lactid acid

Back 32

When built up can impair the muscles ability to contract

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Muscle strain

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When muscle fibers are overstretched or torn

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Sensory neurons

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Neurons that carry signals from muscle to brain

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Motor neurons

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Stimulate muscle to move

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Midbrain

Back 36

Part of the brain that serves important functions in motor movement, particularly movements of the eye, and in auditory and visual processing.

Simple: plays a role in motor movement and audio/visual processing

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hindbrain

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Part of the brain that coordinates functions that are fundamental to survival, including respiratory rhythm, motor activity, sleep, and wakefulness

Involved with autonomic function

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Frontal L.

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Lobe for Short term and working memory, information processing, decisions, planning, and judgment.

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Parietal Lobe

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Lobe responsible for spatial positioning and navigation of the body

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resposible for language comprehension

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wernicke's area responsibility

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resposible for language production

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broca's area responsibility

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Grey matter

Back 42

The matter involved in analyzing info

Few myelinated axons

Contains the cell bodies, dendrites and the axon terminals, where all synapses ar

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White matter

Back 43

The matter that conducts info between the other matter

Few cell bodies and long ranged myelinated axons

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Forebrain

Back 44

Part of the brain involved in sensory processing, endocrine structures, and higher reasoning

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Hippocampus

Back 45

Site of memory storage

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Duramater

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Outer layer of the brain

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Arachnoid

Back 47

Includes a network of fibers and collagen that are part of the suspension system that helps protect the brain and spinal cord from sudden impact.

Contains blood vessles

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Pia mater

Back 48

Covers the brain

It has blood vessels that deliver oxygen and nutrients to the spinal cord.

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Sub arachnoid space

Back 49

Filled with CSF