Parts of the brain

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Central nervous system
Brain and spinal chord - Sends messages from the brain to your body
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2 hemispheres
Linked by the corpus collosum
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Medulla
Involuntary actions
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Brain lateralisation
2 hemispheres have different functions
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Right hemisphere
Creative functions
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Left hemispheres
Scientific maths and logic
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Ventricles
Make cerebrospinal fluid in the spinal column to cushion the brain
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The cerebral cortex
Higher brain functions e.g. interacting
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Lobes in the cerebral cortex
Frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe, cerebellum
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Frontal lobe
Intelligence, behaviour, eating drinking, personality
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Parietal lobe
Language, reading, memory, meaning
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Temporal lobe
Hearing, listening, understanding, memory
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Occipital lobe
Visual information
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Cerebellum
Memory and practical skills
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Limbic system
Emotions and memories
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Within the limbic system
Hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, thalamus
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Hippocampus
New memories - STM passed to LTM through hippocampus - CW didn't have hippocampus
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Amygdala
Emotion centre - Fear response - Raine murderes had erratic amygdala and animals had no fear when it was removed
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Hypothalamus
Motivated behaviour - eating drinking sex. Part of the endocrine system. Animals with damage to hypothalamus eat too much
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Thalamus
In the centre of the limbic system - sends messages from the brain
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Linked by the corpus collosum

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2 hemispheres

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Involuntary actions

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2 hemispheres have different functions

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Creative functions

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