otd 515: parts of brain + function Flashcards

Higher cognitive functions (thinking, memory, emotions, voluntary movement)

Basic life functions (breathing, heart rate, sleep cycles)

Balance, coordination, and fine motor control

Relays messages between cerebrum and cerebellum; regulates breathing

Connects the left and right cerebral hemispheres for communication

ensory and motor relay, hormone regulation (includes thalamus and hypothalamus)

Vision, hearing, motor control, alertness

Homeostasis (temperature, hunger, thirst, sleep)

• Primary functional systems: motor, motor planning, association areas
• Responsible for: attention, speech, personality, and motor

• Primary function systems: primary auditory sensory, secondary auditory sensory, association areas
• Responsible for: special senses (hearing), auditory processing, memory, receptive language
  • Primary auditory cortex // Secondary auditory cortex
  • anterior left temporal lobe (verbal info memory) // anterior right temporal lobe (retrieval of non-verbal memory)
  • Wernicke’s area (retrieving, processing, and comprehension/meaning of words)
  • Inferolateral temporal lobe: object recognition and visual memory
  • fusiform gyrus: facial recognition

• interpretation of visual information // processing visual information
• AREAS:
  • Primary visual cortex (perceptions of edges)
  • Ventral cortex (perceptions of shape, color, reading, face recognition, nonverbal pattern recognition)
  • Dorsal cortex (depth and motion perception, visual attention, visually guided reaching)

• Sensory detection, Perception
• touch, spatial awareness, sensory integration
• Key Functional Areas
  • Primary somatosensory cortex (postcentral gyrus)
  • superior region // inferior region
  • Secondary Sensory

• Functions: interoception processing somatic, visceral,
  and taste sensations // emotional regulation // self-awareness
• Key Functional Areas
  • Posterior (interpretation of intensity of an experience
  • Mid (association area)
  • Anterior (interception // awareness internal state // visceral comfort and pain)

• Spatial relations
• Attention and awareness
• Understanding and remembering things we do and see
• Integrating information together to make an entire picture
• Contralateral motor planning (precentral gyrus), sensory processing (postcentral gyrus), visual processing
• Affective part of communications

• Numbers
• Logical comparisons
• Fact retrieval
• Analysis of information
• Contralateral motor planning (precentral gyrus), sensory processing (postcentral gyrus), visual processing
• Understanding and use of language (listening, reading, speaking and writing)

• sensory: pain, temperature, touch, pressure

• MOTOR function (towards limbs)

• DCML: sensory
  
  • proprioception and light touch

• primary motor cortex,
  • responsible for initiating
  • controlling voluntary movements

both motor and sensory nerves

pituitary gland

brainstem

hypothalamus