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| The nerves controlling the head are called ____. the nerves controlling the body are called _____. | Cranial nerves, spinal nerves. |
| Which part of the spinal cord is the efferent section and the afferent section | Efferent section is the ventral root, the afferent root is the dorsal root. |
| Give some evidence that we only turn off not destroy our lower command mechanisms when being controlled by higher command. | When our higher command is damaged e.g. in a stroke we are still able to reactivate lower command and control simple things. |
| What is a cross reflex, give an example of this. | Where you have a reflex reaction to something however the reflex crosses the spinal cord to activate muscles on the opposite side of the body. For example stepping on a pin means we need to lift our leg and take the weight of our body on the opposite leg. This would require the reflex to cross the spinal cord before lifting the other limb. |
| Give weather each of these sections of the brain are primitive, or advanced. Forebrain, Hindbrain | Forebrain advanced, Hindbrain primitive |
| What is the cerebral cortex composed of? | White matter and Grey matter |
| What does the cerebral cortex control? | memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and consciousness. |
| What two sections are within the diencephalon? | Thalamus and hypothalamus |
| What does the thalamus do? | Relay station for all sensory pathways except smell, also participates in muscle coordination, role in awareness. |
| What does the hypothalamus do? | Controls limbic system (which is involved with learning and emotion), temperature control |
| What does the cerebellum do? | Receives information from the muscles, skin, joints, ears and eyes and motor cortex about our movement. It then coordinates movement and may be involved with some forms of learning. |
| What does the brain stem do? | Maintains blood pressure, heart rate and breathing rate. contains the reticular formation |
| What does the reticular formation do? | Controls cardiovascular control and breathing control. Revives and integrates All information passes though reticular formation before passing into the brain. |
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