PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Genetic Disorder, Caudate Nucleus, Corticosterone
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Movement away and toward the brain: afferent (sensory pathways) movement toward a brain structure, efferent (motor pathways) movement away from a brain structure. Precentral gyrus a part of the brain responsible for motor ability: also called: Jackson"s strip after hughlings-jackson suggesting that the representation of the body in the brain also is orderly. Primary motor cortex or m1 referred by electrophysiologists to distinguish it from other motor regions of the cortex. Area pyramidalis gall found that the pyramidal tract that extends from the cortex into the spinal cord comes mainly from this cortical region. Longest name for a brain structure is nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis bechterewi: known as nrtp. An overview of nervous system structure and function: Cns consists of the brain and spinal cord. Pns encompasses everything else: sns consists of all the spinal and cranial nerves to and from the sensory organs, muscles, joints and skin. Produces movement and transmits incoming sensory information to the.
