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What does cortex mean?
Surface; often used to refer to cerebral cortex
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What does the term 'cerebrum' encompass?
Both hemispheres, plus subcortical
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The hindbrain & midbrain =
Brain Stem
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Limbic & Cerebrum =
Forebrain
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What does limbic mean?
Border
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What controls motor activity?
Cerebellum
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What is the function of the brain stem?
Essential automatic functions; breathing, sleeping, moving
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What system is responsible for the hairs on your arm standing up?
Limbic
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What type of memory is associated with the amygdala?
Implicit and body memory
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What part of the brain is essentially a smoke detector?
Amygdala
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What type of memory is associated with the hippocampus?
Explicit
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Without the ____, you wouldn't remember what you had for lunch yesterday.
Hippocampus
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Parkinson's is due to problems with ______?
The basal ganglia
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What part of the brain is concerned with keeping you safe?
Basal ganglia
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OCD, hoarding, excessive hand washing are attributed to this brian structure:
Basal ganglia
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The cerebral cortex is made up of 4 lobes. Name them
Frontal, Temporal, Occipital, Parietal
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Which lobe is involved with the planning of movements, recent memory and some aspects of emotions?
Frontal lobe
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Which lobe is involved with body sensations?
Parietal lobe
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Which lobe is involved with hearing and advanced visual processing?
Temporal lobe
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Which lobe is involved with vision?
Occipital lobe
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Which hemisphere is involvedwith language, verbal and cognitive processes?
Left
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Which hemisphere is non-verbal and associated with perceiving the world, visual-spatial and emotional behavior?
Right
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Which portion of the brain contains 80% of all neurons?
Cerebral Cortex
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What is the function of the prefrontal cortex?
Orchestration of thoughts and actions in accordance with internal goals
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It is the job of the ______ to put a damper on signals that come from the amygdala.
Prefrontal cortex
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What part of the brain is the "affective core"?
Right orbitofrontal cortex
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What part of the brain is involved with social adjustment and the control of mood, drive and responsibility, traits that are crucial in defining the "personality" of an individual?
Right orbitofrontal cortex
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What brain structure shuts down signals from the amygdala?
Right orbitofrontal cortex
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What brain structure is involved with war vets "shutting down"?
Right orbitofrontal cortex
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The glands of what system produce hormones?
Endocrine
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What does HPA axis stand for?
Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis
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What are the structures of the HPA Axis?
Hypothalamus, pituitary glands and adrenal glands
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What happens when the HPA Axis senses stress?
- Pituitary signals the adrenal gland to release epinephrine (adrenaline)
- and cortisol
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The adrenal glad releases these chemicals when stressed:
Epinephrine (adrenaline) and cortisol
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What signals the adrenal gland to release epinephrine and cortisol?
the Pituitary Gland
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