PSYA01H3 : Textbook and Lecture Notes
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Long thin collection of nerve cells attached to the base of the brain and running the length of the spinal column. Spine has 7c 12t 5l [cervical, thoracic, lumbar] Everything but the brain and spinal cord. Bundle of nerve fibres attached to the base of the brain. Conveys sensory information from the face and head and carries messages to muscles and glands. Bundle of nerve fibres attached to the spinal cord. Conveys snesory information from the body and carries messages back to the muscles and glands www. notesolution. com. Stem of the brain [medulla, pons, mid-brain] Cerebral cortex covered and contains parts of brain that evolved most recently. A pair of hemispheres resembling the cerebral hemispheres but much smaller and lying beneath and in the back of them. One of the bones that encase the spinal cord and constitute the vertebral column. Three layered set of membranes enclosing the brain and spinal cord. Liquid which brain and spinal cord float.
