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| A belief that the mind and the body are distinct entities |
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| What does "gross" refer to? |
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| General or big picture stuff, generaly able to be seen w/o a microscope |
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| What does the central nervous system contain? |
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| the CNS consists of the brain and the spinal cord |
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| What is the hole in the skull called through which the spinal cord connects to the brain? |
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| What does the Peripheral nervouse system contain? |
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| the PNS consists of any neural element that lies outside of the brain and spinal chord |
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| anterior, superior, or towards the face |
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| towards the tail, back, posterior |
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| towards the midline of the body |
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| away from the midline of the body |
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| What are the five gross divisions of the brain moving from rostral to caudal? |
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| The telencephalon, the diencephalon, the mesencephalon, the metencephalon and the myelencephalon |
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Wii: telencephalon
(Wii: whats in it, what does it consist of) |
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| outer two hemispheres of the brain, the two cerebral hemispheres |
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| thalamus and hypothalamus |
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| What does mesencephalon mean? |
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| What is the importance of the myelencephalon? |
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| it connects to the spinal cord through the foramen magnum |
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| What is the most recently evolved area of the brain? |
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| The very outer part of the telencephalon |
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| Where is the thalamus found? |
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| What does the word thalamus mean? |
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| anteroom or the room before |
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| Why is the thalamus appropriately named? |
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| pretty much all info that needs to get to the cortex needs to go through the thalamus |
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| Where is the hypothalamus located? |
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| In the diencephalon below thethalamus |
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| What is the overall function of the hypothalamus? |
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| What is the overall function for the midbrain, or the mesencephalon? |
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| What is the rostral, or superior, colliculus? |
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| Where is the rostral colliculus? |
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| Why is the pons aptly named? |
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| The pons is the bridge between the cortex, which initiates a gross motor movement, and the cerebellum, which fine tunes the movement |
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| What other names does the myelencephalon have? |
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| medulla or medulla oblongata |
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| the telencephalon and the diencephalon |
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| the caudal subdivisions of the brain including the metencephalon and the myelencephalon |
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| the mesencephalon, metencephalon, and myelencephalon which the diencephalon and telencephalon sit upon |
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