Anatomy of the brain
- Created by: SamDavies
- Created on: 06-01-18 17:06
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- The Brain
- Corticol regions
- Lobes
- Frontal
- Reasoning, motor skills, higher level cognition
- Parietal
- Processes sensory information (contains somatosensory cortex)
- Occipital
- Visual stimuli and information
- Temporal
- Interprets sound and language
- Cerebellum
- Receives information from the sensory systems and spinal cord
- Regulates motor movements
- Coordinates voluntary movement
- Receives information from the sensory systems and spinal cord
- Frontal
- Corpus callosum
- Allows for communication between the two hemispheres
- Sulcus
- A depression or groove in the cerebral cortex. It surrounds a gyrus, creating the folded appearance of the brain
- Homunculus
- Distorted representation of the human body, relating to motor or sensory functions
- Lobes
- Sub-corticol regions
- Thalamus
- Relays information to the cerebral cortex
- Processes sensory information
- Regulates sleep and wakefulness
- Hypothalamus
- Links nervous system to endocrine system via pituitary gland
- Maintains homeostasis by regulating pH balance, temperature, blood pressure and respiration
- Secretes neurohormones which stimulate or inhibit secretion of pituitary hormones
- Thalamus
- Brainstem
- Midbrain
- Associated with vision, heating, motor control, sleep and wake cycles, alertness and temperature regulation
- Pons
- Carries signals from the cerebrum to the medulla, cerebellum and the thalamus
- Contains nuclei that deal with sleep, respiration, hearing, taste, eye movement, facial expressions and posture
- Medulla oblongata
- Controls autonomic function, including respiration, cardiac function, vasodilation and other reflexes
- Midbrain
- Corticol regions
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