Brain Labeling Word Scramble
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| Definition | Term |
| functions include speech, memory, logical & emotional response, consciousness, interpretation of sensation & voluntary movement | cortex |
| composed of fiber tracts carrying impulses to, from, or within the cortex | white matter |
| help regulate voluntary motor activity | basal nuclei (ganglia) |
| serves as relay station for sensory impulses passing upward to sensory cortex; impulses surge through thalamus; pleasant or unpleasant; transfers impulses to correct part of cortex for localization & interpretation | thalamus |
| under thalamus; autonomic nervous system center; houses limbic center for emotion; regulates nearby pituitary gland; houses mammillary body for olfaction | hypothalamus |
| houses pineal body; includes choroid plexus which forms cerebrospinal fluid | epithalamus |
| composed mostly of tracts of nerve fibers; 4 rounded protrusions called corpora quadrigemina are reflex centers involved with vision & hearing | midbrain |
| bulging center part of brain stem; composed of fiber tracts; includes nuclei involved in control of breathing | pons |
| lowest part of brain stem; merges into spinal cord; important fiber tracts; important control centers | medulla oblongata |
| 2 hemispheres, right & left; controls balance & equilibrium; provides precise time for skeletal muscle activity & coordination of body movements | cerebellum |
| paired (left & right) superior parts of the brain | cerebral hemisphere |
| sits on top of the brain stem; enclosed by the cerebral hemispheres | diencephalon |
| attaches to spinal cord | brain stem |
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