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Contralateral

where one side of your brain controls the opposite side of your body
Effects of split brain
- delay of communication
- might help to avoid chronic seizures
- delay in function (tying shoes)
Hindbrain
- brain stem
- medulla oblongatta
- Pons
Midbrain
- Reticular formation
- RAS
- Reticular Act system
Forebrain
- Thalamus
- hypothalamus
- Amygdala
- Hippocampus
Limbic system
- memory
- drives
- amygdala pituitary gland hypothalamus hippocampus
CAT scan
- good for looking inside the brain
- sophisticated 3D X-ray
MRI scan
- good for looking inside the brain
- measures density and location of brain material
EEG
- good for looking at brain function
- detects brain waves at different stages of consciousness
- good for looking at dreams and detecting abnormalities
PET scan
- good for looking at brain function
- shows activity in the brain with radioactive glucose
FMRI
- good for looking at brain function
- ties brain activity and blood flow during some kind of cognitive task
- very costly