01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Primary Motor Cortex, Corpus Callosum, Homeostasis

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Dr.John Ackroff

Document Summary

Medulla: atached to the spinal cord, controls circulaion of blood, breathing, muscle tone, regulaing relexes (like sneezing), coughing and salivaion. Pons: connects the brainstem with the cerebellum, also has cell bodies involved with sleep and arousal. Cerebellum: coordinaion and movement, sense of balance and physical equilibrium, it plays key role in organizing sensory info for muscle movement, is efected by alcohol consumpion, damage to cerebellum disrupts ine motor skills like wriing typing, playing instruments. Reicular formaion: located in central core of brainstem, contributes to modulaion of muscle relexes (breathing and pain recepion) Contains the thalamus, hypothalamus, limbic system, and cerebrum. Thalamus: all sensory info passes through here (except smell, made up of somas (clusters of cell bodies, relay staion. Hypothalamus: regulaion of basic biological needs, very small, controls autonomic nervous system, vital link between the brain and the endocrine system, regulates basic needs, fours f"s. Limbic system: hypothalamus, hippocampus and amygdala, hippocampus. Consolidaion of memories for factual informaion: amygdala.