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Description
Mind Map by travel_bug, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by travel_bug
about 11 years ago
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Cerebellum
- consists of 2 cerebellar hemispheres & vermis (central area)
- Function:
- Correct voluntary muscle contraction & posture based on
sensory data from body about actual movements
- Sense of equilibrium
- Correct voluntary muscle contraction & posture based on
sensory data from body about actual movements
- Cerebellar cortex & central nuclei are gray matter
- Arbor vitae = tree of life = white matter
- Superior, middle & inferior peduncles attach to brainstem
- inferior carries sensory info from spinal cord
- middle carries sensory fibers from cerebral cortex & basal ganglia
- superior carries motor fibers that extend to motor control areas
- superior carries motor fibers that extend to motor control areas
- middle carries sensory fibers from cerebral cortex & basal ganglia
- inferior carries sensory info from spinal cord
- May have role in cognition and language processing.
- A deep groove known as the transverse fissure separates
the cerebellum from the cerebrum
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