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| sympathetic nervous system |
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| mobilizes bodily resources ("fight or flight") |
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| parasympathetic nervous system |
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| conserves bodily resources ("save and store") |
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| coordinates muscle movement, balance |
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| regulates largely unconscious functions such as breathing and circulation |
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| involved in sleep and arousal |
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| contributes to reflexes, breathing, and pain perception; also sleep and arousal |
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| relay center for cortex; handles incoming and outgoing signals |
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| part of limbic system involved in emotion and aggression |
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| part of limbic system involved in learning and memory |
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| responsible for regulating basic biological needs: hunger, thirst, temperature control |
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| bridge of fibers passing information between the two cerebral hemispheres |
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| body movements, working memory, decision making |
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| somatosensory processing (e.g. touch), spacial aspects of visual processing |
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| auditory processing, including language comprehension |
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