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What is the function of the Dendrites
Receives electric signals from other neurons
Has receptors on the end of the dentrites
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What is the function of the Nucleus
Contains your DNA
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what is the SOMA and the function
Also known as the cell body it contains neurons
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What is the Myelin Sheath and the Function
The Myelin Sheath acts as a protective coating sorrounding the axon and acts as an insulator of the nerve signal
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What is the axon and function
Electric Signals pass down the axon from the cells body
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What is the function if the synaptic terminal
releasing chemicals (neurotransmitter)
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What is the flowchart
Stimulus-sensory Neuron-interneuron-motor-response
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What is the function of the Cerebral Cortex?
- –Makes
- up 90% of brain volume and has many functions, including controlling complex
- thought
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What is the function of the Cerebellum?
Movement
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What is the function of the Medulla?
- –Controls
- vital, involuntary (automatic) activities like heartbeat and breathing
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What is the function of the Frontal Lobe?
- •Contains
- both association and motor
- areas
- –Conscious
- thought
–Personality
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What is the function of the Parietal Lobe?
- •Responsible
- for processing information from all of our sensory organs:
–Skin
–Eyes
–Tongue
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What is the function of the Temporal Lobe?
- •Contain
- both sensory and association
- areas
•Temporal lobe
- –Interpretation
- of language
–Memory
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What is the function of the occipital Lobe?
- •Containboth sensory and associationareas
- –Vision
- –Recognition
- of objects by sight
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What is the function of the amygdala?
- Processing of fear and emotion and
- coordination of fight or flight response
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What is the functions of the hippocampus?
Memory formation and spatial navigation
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What is the function of the thalamus?
- Relaying of information between different
- parts of the brain. Contributes to perception, movement, memory and
- consciousness.
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What is the function of the corpus callosum?
- Large bundle of fibres connecting left
- and right hemisphere of the brain
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What is the function of hypothalamus.
- Controls many involuntary processes such
- as hunger, body temperature and blood pressure.
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