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Bio 2320 human anatomy exam 2cerebral cortex - correct answer ✔✔Responsible for higher order function (language and info.
processing) Divided into lobes
Frontal Lobe - correct answer ✔✔Personality, Intellect, Judgement, Reasoning, Conscience, Intuition,
Mood, Abstract Ideas, and motor control to skeletal muscles
Parietal Lobe - correct answer ✔✔Processes sensory info. + sensory discrimination, and body orientation
in space and writing.
Temporal Lobe - correct answer ✔✔Auditory Processing, Language, Speech, and memory retrieval
Occipital Lobe - correct answer ✔✔Visual Processing
Corpus Callosum - correct answer ✔✔Connects each half of the brain and makes sure each hemisphere
communicates and cooperates.
Thalmus - correct answer ✔✔Receives sensory information and relays it to the cerebrum where it is
processed
Pons - correct answer ✔✔Acts as a relay system between the cerebellum and the cerebrum. Coordinates
control of involuntary fx's
Medulla - correct answer ✔✔White mater; Control of involuntary fx (breathing, heart rate, and blood
pressure)
Cerebellum - correct answer ✔✔Coordinates execution of movements
, Spinal Cord - correct answer ✔✔Pathway for info. going back and forth between the brain and body.
(Skin, joints, muscles)
Pituitary gland - correct answer ✔✔Endocrine hormone functions
Hypothalamus - correct answer ✔✔Controls behavior, hunger, thirst, sex drive, endocrine, &
homeostatic functions
Optic Chiasm - correct answer ✔✔Pathway where the optic nerve crosses
Anterior Commissure - correct answer ✔✔Connects the 2 olfactory tracts to process memory and smell
Posterior Commissure - correct answer ✔✔Pupillary reflex and eye tracting
Pineal Gland - correct answer ✔✔Secretes melatonin and controls sleep-wake cycles
Superior Colliculus - correct answer ✔✔Visual tracting; move head in response to visual cues
Inferior Colliculus - correct answer ✔✔Auditory tracting; move head in response to auditory cues
Septum Pellucidum - correct answer ✔✔A thin, triangular, vertical double membrane separating the
anterior horns of the left and right lateral ventricles of the brain. It runs as a sheet from the corpus
callosum down to the fornix.
Fornix - correct answer ✔✔Connects hippocampus to the hypothalmus and thalmus.
What are the 4 arteries that supply blood to the brain? - correct answer ✔✔Derived from the L & R
VERTEBRAL ARTERIES and INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY
Cranial Nerves - correct answer ✔✔Each of twelve pairs of nerves that arise directly from the brain, not
from the spinal cord, and pass through separate apertures in the skull
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