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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9367261 link on T and CorpusCallosum. Brain Anatomy. Regions and their functions. By By Anthony. Mr. Verdi has a new favorite student…. Hippocampus and Amygdala. 4 major regions. Cerebral hemispheres Diencephalon Brain stem Cerebellum.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9367261link on T and CorpusCallosum
Brain Anatomy Regions and their functions
4 major regions • Cerebral hemispheres • Diencephalon • Brain stem • Cerebellum
Cerebral Hemispheres • Right and Left Superior part of brain • Most of mass of the brain • Shallow groove = sulcus • Elevated area by groove = gyrus
Cerebral Cortex • .125 inch thick… 40% of brain mass • Motor areas • Sensory areas • Association areas • Contralateral control
Central sulcus • Precentral gyrus = primary motor
Primary Motor Cortex • Precentral gyrus • Controls voluntary movement
Premotor Cortex • Learned motor skills
Broca’s area • Speech! Left hemisphere Broca's area and Wernicke's area are connected by a bundle of nerve fibers called the arcuate fasciculus. Damage to the arcuate fasciculus causes a disorder called conduction aphasia. People with conduction aphasia can understand language, but their speech does not make sense and they cannot repeat words.
Primary Somatosensory Cortex • Postcentral gyrus • Right hemisphere gets information from left, and upside down
Somatosensory Association cortex • Posterior to postcentral gyrus
Visual area • Extreme posterior tip of occipital lobe
Visual Association Area • Surrounds the visual area… determines what you are seeing • i.e. 2 pretty eyes, long hair, ears… its Zooey !
Auditory Areas • Top of temporal lobe = primary auditory area • Posterior of temporal lobe = auditory association area
Olfactory cortex • primitive brain new functions • Rhinencephalon = Memory! • Why we remember smell of Grandma’s old smoky apartment, with dentures and those weird mints now only seen at midlevel restaraunts
Diencephalon • 3 paired structures • Thalamus • Hypothalamus • Epithalamus
Thalamus • Large number of nuclei • “Afferent impulses from all senses and all parts of the body converge on the thalamus • Includes sensory, visceral, emotional, etc.
Hypothalamus 7 functions 1.) Autonomic control center 2.) Center for emotional response 3.) Body Temperature Regulation
Hypothalamus 4.) Regulation of Food Intake 5.) Regulation of Water balance and thirst 6.) Regulation of sleep-wake cycles 7.) control of endocrine system functioning
Epithalamus • Pineal gland – melatonin hormone
Medulla Oblongata • Cardiovascular center • Respiratory center • Various other centers