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| senses things from outside environment |
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| visceral sensory receptor |
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| senses things from internal conditions/organs |
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| sends sensory info to cns |
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| sends info from receptors to afferent division |
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| cns, central nervous system |
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| analyses sensory info and coordinator of output |
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| pns, peripheral nervous system |
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| all nerves that branch out from cns, extend to other parts of body |
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| sends info from aff div to cns to eff div |
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| rest and digest, sit and sh |
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| smooth/cardiac muscle, glands, adipose tissue |
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| muscles and glands as an effect in response to directions from the nervous system, motor output or motor function |
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| sends info from eff div to the rest |
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| as a whole, voluntary actions: conscious thoughts, intellectual functions, memory and learning, and information retrieval |
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| relay and process centres for sensory information |
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| fine-tunes motor activities based on sensory information and prior knowledge, regulates fear and pleasure responses |
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| process visual/auditory information and generates involuntary motor responses |
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| "bridge" connecting cerebellum to brain stem, voluntary motor control |
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| different parts of the brain that have separate functions |
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| frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal |
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anterior portion
memory, reasoning, speech (mrs) |
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between the central sulcus and parieto-occipital sulcus
integrate sensory info, touch |
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posterior part of the brain
sense of sigh and visual info |
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inferior portion of brain
sense of smell, taste, sound
hippocampus |
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| memory from experienced events, navigation, and processing conflict |
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| function of sulci and gyri |
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| increase surface area for neuron density and material diffusion |
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| depression/fissures on brain surface |
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| divides frontal/parietal lobes |
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| divides frontal/temporal lobe |
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| divides parietal/occipital lobes |
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| final relay point for sensory info, regulates consciousness, sleep, and alertness |
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| adjusts autonomic functions, maintains daily homeostasis, hunger,a nd thirst |
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| endocrine system gland releasing many hormones for growth, BP, energy and metabolism, sex/thyroid organs |
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| regulates day-night cycles, melatonin |
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| processing of memory, emotions (namely fight/flight), and making decisions |
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| "buttcrack for the brain", mid-saggital division between the lateral hemisphere |
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| links the two hemispheres together |
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