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CORRECT ANSWERS.
Cerebral cortex -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain, known as the cerebrum; outer covering of
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the cerebral hemispheres; contains 4 lobes: frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal
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Frontal Lobe -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; executive function, impulse control, long-term
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planning (prefrontal cortex), motor function (primary motor cortex), and speech
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production
Broca's area -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; important for speech production, found in the
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frontal lobe _
Parietal Lobe -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; sensation of touch, pressure, temperature and
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pain (somatosensory cortex); spatial processing, orientation, and manipulation
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somatosensory cortex -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; found in the parietal lobe, important
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for touch, pressure, temperature, and pain sensation
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Occipital lobe -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; visual processing
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temporal lobe -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; sound processing (auditory complex), speech
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perception (Wernicke's area), memory, and emotion (limbic system)
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Wernicke's area -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; found in the temporal lobe; important for
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speech perception
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Basal ganglia -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; coordinates muscle movement from cortex to
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the rest of the brain and spinal cord; smooth movements and maintain posture stability
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,limbic system -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; primarily associated with emotion and
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memory; includes the septal nuclei, amygdala, hippocampus
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Septal nuclei -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; part of the limbic system; feelings of pleasure,
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pleasure-seeking behavior, and addiction _ _ _
Amygdala -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; part of the limbic system, controls fear and
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aggression
Hippocampus -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; part of the limbic system; consolidates
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memories and communicates with other parts of the limbic system through the fornix
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Thalamus -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; sensory relay station for all incoming senses
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EXCEPT smell; sorts, and transmits to proper areas of the cortex
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Hypothalamus -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; active during high-arousal, aggressive behavior,
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and sexual behavior; controls endocrine functions and ANS; maintains homeostasis
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hypophyseal portal system -- Answer ✔✔ connects hypothalamus to anterior pituitary;
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maintains coordination of the endocrine system
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Hindbrain -- Answer ✔✔ "brain stem"; contains the cerebellum, medulla oblongata, and
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reticular formation
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Cerebellum -- Answer ✔✔ part of the hindbrain; controls motor movement, and
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balance
medulla oblongata -- Answer ✔✔ part of the hindbrain; controls breathing, reflex
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control, and maintains upright posture
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reticular formation -- Answer ✔✔ part of the hindbrain; controls normal behavior of
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walking, sleeping, waking, and other reflexes; degenerative part of this section is related
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_to Parkinson's Disease
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Midbrain -- Answer ✔✔ contains the inferior and superior colliculi
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, inferior colliculi -- Answer ✔✔ important midbrain nucleus that is involved in the
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auditory pathway _
superior colliculi -- Answer ✔✔ important midbrain nucleus that is involved in the
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visual pathway, receiving information from the eye
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Function of midbrain -- Answer ✔✔ reception of sensory and motor information;
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generally necessary for survival
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Forebrain -- Answer ✔✔ contains the thalamus, hypothalamus, basal ganglia, limbic
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system, and cerebral cortex
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Function of hindbrain -- Answer ✔✔ controls balance, motor coordination, breathing,
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and general arousal (waking and sleeping); generally necessary for survival
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Corpus Callosum -- Answer ✔✔ bundle of axons that connects the right and left
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hemispheres
Optic Chiasm -- Answer ✔✔ point in visual nerve system where nasal fibers (carrying
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temporal vision) cross and the temporal fibers (carrying nasal vision) pass directly
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through to the optic tract
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Bitemporal Hemianopsia: Lesion of Optic Chaism would cause would knock out the
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_____ fibers and the person would lose the ______ vision -- Answer ✔✔ Nasal fibers
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Temporal vision _
Nasal fibers -- Answer ✔✔ carry information from the temporal field of vision
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(Remember: visual image crosses over and hits opposite side of retina)
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Temporal Fibers -- Answer ✔✔ carry information from the nasal field of vision
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(Remember: visual image crosses over and hits opposite side of retina)
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CORRECT ANSWERS.
Cerebral cortex -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain, known as the cerebrum; outer covering of
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the cerebral hemispheres; contains 4 lobes: frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal
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Frontal Lobe -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; executive function, impulse control, long-term
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planning (prefrontal cortex), motor function (primary motor cortex), and speech
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production
Broca's area -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; important for speech production, found in the
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frontal lobe _
Parietal Lobe -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; sensation of touch, pressure, temperature and
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pain (somatosensory cortex); spatial processing, orientation, and manipulation
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somatosensory cortex -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; found in the parietal lobe, important
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for touch, pressure, temperature, and pain sensation
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Occipital lobe -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; visual processing
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temporal lobe -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; sound processing (auditory complex), speech
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perception (Wernicke's area), memory, and emotion (limbic system)
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Wernicke's area -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; found in the temporal lobe; important for
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speech perception
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Basal ganglia -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; coordinates muscle movement from cortex to
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the rest of the brain and spinal cord; smooth movements and maintain posture stability
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,limbic system -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; primarily associated with emotion and
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memory; includes the septal nuclei, amygdala, hippocampus
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Septal nuclei -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; part of the limbic system; feelings of pleasure,
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pleasure-seeking behavior, and addiction _ _ _
Amygdala -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; part of the limbic system, controls fear and
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aggression
Hippocampus -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; part of the limbic system; consolidates
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memories and communicates with other parts of the limbic system through the fornix
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Thalamus -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; sensory relay station for all incoming senses
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EXCEPT smell; sorts, and transmits to proper areas of the cortex
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Hypothalamus -- Answer ✔✔ Forebrain; active during high-arousal, aggressive behavior,
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and sexual behavior; controls endocrine functions and ANS; maintains homeostasis
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hypophyseal portal system -- Answer ✔✔ connects hypothalamus to anterior pituitary;
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maintains coordination of the endocrine system
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Hindbrain -- Answer ✔✔ "brain stem"; contains the cerebellum, medulla oblongata, and
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reticular formation
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Cerebellum -- Answer ✔✔ part of the hindbrain; controls motor movement, and
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balance
medulla oblongata -- Answer ✔✔ part of the hindbrain; controls breathing, reflex
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control, and maintains upright posture
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reticular formation -- Answer ✔✔ part of the hindbrain; controls normal behavior of
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walking, sleeping, waking, and other reflexes; degenerative part of this section is related
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_to Parkinson's Disease
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Midbrain -- Answer ✔✔ contains the inferior and superior colliculi
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, inferior colliculi -- Answer ✔✔ important midbrain nucleus that is involved in the
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auditory pathway _
superior colliculi -- Answer ✔✔ important midbrain nucleus that is involved in the
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visual pathway, receiving information from the eye
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Function of midbrain -- Answer ✔✔ reception of sensory and motor information;
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generally necessary for survival
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Forebrain -- Answer ✔✔ contains the thalamus, hypothalamus, basal ganglia, limbic
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system, and cerebral cortex
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Function of hindbrain -- Answer ✔✔ controls balance, motor coordination, breathing,
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and general arousal (waking and sleeping); generally necessary for survival
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Corpus Callosum -- Answer ✔✔ bundle of axons that connects the right and left
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hemispheres
Optic Chiasm -- Answer ✔✔ point in visual nerve system where nasal fibers (carrying
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temporal vision) cross and the temporal fibers (carrying nasal vision) pass directly
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through to the optic tract
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Bitemporal Hemianopsia: Lesion of Optic Chaism would cause would knock out the
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_____ fibers and the person would lose the ______ vision -- Answer ✔✔ Nasal fibers
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Temporal vision _
Nasal fibers -- Answer ✔✔ carry information from the temporal field of vision
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(Remember: visual image crosses over and hits opposite side of retina)
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Temporal Fibers -- Answer ✔✔ carry information from the nasal field of vision
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(Remember: visual image crosses over and hits opposite side of retina)
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