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otd 515: parts of brain + function

front 1

Cerebrum

back 1

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

front 2

Brainstem

back 2

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

front 3

Cerebellum

back 3

Balance, coordination, and fine motor control

front 4

Pons

back 4

Relays messages between cerebrum and cerebellum; regulates breathing

front 5

Corpus Callosum

back 5

Connects the left and right cerebral hemispheres for communication

front 6

Diencephalon

back 6

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

front 7

Midbrain

back 7

Vision, hearing, motor control, alertness

front 8

Hypothalamus

back 8

Homeostasis (temperature, hunger, thirst, sleep)

front 9

LOBES

Frontal Lobe

back 9

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

front 10

LOBES

Temporal

back 10

  • 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

front 11

LOBES

Occipital

back 11

  • 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)

front 12

LOBES

Parietal

back 12

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

front 13

Insula

Closely related to limbic system

back 13

  • 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)

front 14

Cerebral Hemispheric Differences

Right Hemisphere

back 14

  • 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

front 15

Cerebral Hemispheric Differences

Left Hemisphere

back 15

  • 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)

front 16

Cross section of spinal cord

spinothalamic tract

back 16

  • sensory: pain, temperature, touch, pressure

front 17

Cross section of spinal cord

Lateral corticospinal tract

back 17

  • MOTOR function (towards limbs)

front 18

Cross section of spinal cord

Dorsal columns

back 18

  • DCML: sensory
    • proprioception and light touch

front 19

frontal lobe

precentral gyrus

back 19

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

front 20

the thalamus is a relay center for ___.

back 20

both motor and sensory nerves

front 21

a client comes in with thyroid problems and hormone imbalances.

what structure is impacted?

back 21

pituitary gland

front 22

a client had a stroke and they now have impaired reflexes and can't breathe on their own.

what structure is impacted?

back 22

brainstem

front 23

Your client says they are constantly hungry & thirsty.

what structure is impacted?

back 23

hypothalamus