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1
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Contra lateral hemisphere

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Contra lateral means each hemisphere controls the opposite side of the body

2
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How does contralateralization work

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Decussation of pyramids

3
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What is the left hemisphere used for

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  • language
  • math
  • logic
4
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What is the right side of the hemisphere used for

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  • visual/spatial skills
  • emotion
  • art
  • music
5
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What does the primary motor cortex do

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Conscious control of the skeletal muscle movements

6
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Pre motor cortex

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Plans movements

Controls voluntary movements which depend on sensory feedback

7
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Broca’s area

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Usually in left hemisphere

Directs muscles involved in speech production

8
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Primary sensory area

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Receives sensory info from skin and proprioceptors in muscle

Interneurons only

9
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Wernickes area

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  • language comprehension

- ability to speak coherently

10
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Prefrontal cortex

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  • intellect
  • personality
  • planning voluntary activity weighing consequences of future actions
11
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Where are memories stored

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  • visual memories- occipital cortex

- musical memories-auditory cortex

12
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Stages of memory formation

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  • short term (seconds, minutes)
  • long term (min, hours, days, years)
  • increases number of axons and dendrites
  • increases size of axon terminal
  • no change in neuron number
13
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How to convert short term to long term

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  • repetition
  • association
  • stored in hippocampus
14
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Association fibers

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Connect different parts of the same hemisphere

15
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Commisural fibers

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Connect hemispheres to each other

16
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Projection fibers

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Connect cerebral cortex to Lower brain or spinal cord

17
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Where are basal nuclei found and what do they do

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Found deep in cerebellum

Influences motor movements from cerebral cortex

18
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Diseases based off of basal nuclei

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  • Parkinson’s (reduction of basal nuclei NT)

- Huntingtons (destruction of basal nuclei)

19
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What makes up the diencephalon

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  • thalamus
  • epithalamus
  • hypothalamus
20
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What does thalamus do

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  • receives all sensory info (except smell)

- decides what is worthy of being passed on to cerebral cortex

21
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What does hypothalamus do

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  • controls heart rate, blood pressure, GI motility
  • temp regulation
  • regulates food intake
  • emotions
22
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What does epithalamus do

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Secretes melatonin from pineal gland

23
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What makes up the brain stem

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  • midbrain
  • pons
  • medulla oblongota
24
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What does the superior and inferior colliculi do?

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  • superior:visual motor reflex

- inferior:auditory motor reflex

25
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What does the pons do

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-maintains normal rhythm of breathing

26
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What does the medulla oblongota do?

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  • regulates heart contraction
  • regulates blood pressure
  • controls rate of breathin
27
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What does the cerebellum do

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  • subconscious coordination of movement

- receives input from motor cortex, basal nuclei, proprioceptors, primary visual cortex, vestibular apparatus

28
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What is found in the dorsal root

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Sensory neurons coming I

29
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What is found in the ganglion

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Cell bodies

30
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What is found in the ventral root

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-motor neurons out

31
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What is found in the spinal nerves

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-sensory and motor neurons

32
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What is found in the dorsal horn

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Interneurons

Synapse with sensory neurons in dorsal root

33
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What is found in the lateral horn

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Cell bodies of ANS

34
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What is found in the ventral horn

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Interneurons and cell bodies of somatic motor nerves

35
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Sulci

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Grooves in brain that increases SA and number of potential neural connections

36
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Ascending tracts

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Transmit sensory impulses up to higher centers

37
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Descending tracts

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-transmit motor impulses down to lower levels

38
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What do the pyramidal tracts control and where do they originate

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  • they control conscious/voluntary skeletal muscle contraction
  • originate in cerebral motor cortex
39
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What do extrapyramidal tracts control?

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  • originate in basal nuclei and brain stem

- control subconscious/involuntary skeletal muscle contraction

40
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What do the spinothalamic tracts do and where do they originate

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  • detect temperature, pain and touch receptors

- synapse in thalamus

41
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What do spinocerebellar tracts do and where do they originate

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  • subconscious muscle or tendon stretch
  • originate in proprioceptors
  • synapse in cerebellum
42
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What can go through blood brain barrier

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  • Glucose
  • O2
  • CO2
  • lipids
  • drugs
  • anesthetics
43
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What can’t go through blood brain barrier

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  • metabolic waste
  • blood cells
  • K+
  • certain toxins
  • most drugs