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Brain Structure Function

The document discusses the structure and function of the human brain. It lists various parts of the brain including lobes, ventricles, and connecting structures. The frontal lobe is involved in planning, reasoning and impulse control. The cerebellum regulates movement, posture and balance. Key functions include vision, hearing, memory, motor control and processing sensory information from the body.

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Brain Structure Function

The document discusses the structure and function of the human brain. It lists various parts of the brain including lobes, ventricles, and connecting structures. The frontal lobe is involved in planning, reasoning and impulse control. The cerebellum regulates movement, posture and balance. Key functions include vision, hearing, memory, motor control and processing sensory information from the body.

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Brain Structure & Function

Structure
Central sulcus
Cerebellum
Cerebral Cortex
Frontal lobe
Occipital lobe
Parietal lobe
Temporal lobe
Choroid plexus
Corpus callosum
Splenium, body, genu
Gray matter
Hippocampus
Hypothalamus
Lateral ventricle
Longitudinal fissure
Medulla (oblongata)
Olfactory bulb
Olfactory nerve (Cranial nerve 1)
Optic nerve (Cranial nerve 2)
Optic tract
Pons
Primary motor cortex
Primary sensory cortex
Spinal cord
Afferent fibers
Efferent fibers
Thalamus
White matter

Function
Separates frontal from parietal lobe
Regulation and coordination of movement,
posture, balance, rhythm
Planning, reasoning, impulse control, personality
Vision
Orientation of body, perception of stimuli
(e.g. touch, pain, temperature)
Hearing, speech, memory
Makes cerebral spinal fluid
Connects two hemispheres
One of the two components of the central nervous
system, mostly consists of cell bodies
Learning and memory, spatial orientation
4Fs (feeding, fleeing, fighting, making love)
Filled with cerebral spinal fluid
Separates two hemispheres
Maintaining vital body functions
(e.g. breathing, heart beat)
Sense olfactory stimuli
Conveys olfactory information from nose to brain
Conveys visual information from eyes to optic
chiasm
Conveys visual information from optic chiasm to
brain
Motor control, consciousness, alertness
Execution of movement
Processing information about touch
Conducts sensory information from body to brain,
conducts motor information from brain to body
Communicate sensory information from body to
brain
Communicate muscle information from brain to
body
Relay station, brain region that combines
information from different sensory systems
One of the two components of the central nervous
system, mostly consists of myelinated axons

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