Principle parts of the brain
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| Cerebrum | senses voluntary muscle activity, intellectual and emotional processing ( thought, memory, reasoning)
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| Basal ganglia (nuclei) | cognition, motor control (initiating and monitoring movements, inhibit antagonistic or unnecessary movements)
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| Cerebellum | coordiantion and balance
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| Thalamus | gateway to the cerebral cortex, mediates sensation, motor activities, cortical arousal and memory, sorting out and editing information
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| Hypothalamus | autonomic control center, emotional response and behavior, body temperature, food intake, water balnce and thirst, sleep-wake cycles, endocrine system functioning
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| Corpora quadrigemina | nuclei that corrdinate head and eye movements, auditory relay, startle reflex
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| Cerebral peduncles | pyramidla motor tracts descending toward the spinal cord, tracts connecting the midbrain to the cerebellum
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| Pons | conduction tracts, pathway between higher brain and centers and the spinal cord, cranial nerves, respiratory rhythm
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| Medulla oblongata | heart beat, blood pressure, respiration
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| Limbic system | fiber tracts and gray matter, emotions, feelings
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| Reticular formation | govern the arousal of the brain as a whole, sensory input filter, muscle tone, coordination, autonomic centers, extend through the medulla, pons and mid-brain
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