ANTR 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dura Mater, Epidural Space, Conus Medullaris
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Hypothalamus: communicates with cerebrum and brainstem; responsible for changing the body to keep in homeostasis; receives information about food intake, water levels, blood pressure, temperature, etc. , and controls visceral function: maintains homeostasis with hormones. Midbrain: connects cerebrum to the rest of the brainstem; communicates with cerebellum; reflex center (visual and auditory reflex) Pons: transmits/relays impulses between cerebrum and cerebellum and brainstem; controls breathing; houses the 4th ventricle. Hippocampus: involved in turning short-term memories into long-term; damage or disease produces anterograde amnesia, the inability to make new memories (most notably destroyed early on in alzheimer"s). Found in temporal lobe: anterograde amnesia- cannot form new memorize. Present in early stages of alzheimers: retrograde amnesia- cannot remember old memories. Amygdala: involved in attaching emotions to experiences and memories, particularly fear; damage or disease produces a loss of appropriate emotional responses to stimuli. Basal ganglia- smoothness of movement and amount of movement. Function of the midbrain- part of the brain stem.
