PSB-2000 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Oligodendrocyte, Ependyma, Unipolar Neuron
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Planning of movement, recent memories, and some aspects of emotion. Don"t know if memories are stored here or not. Can let in visual things and filter out auditory things. Involved in drive-related behaviors and maintaining hypothalamus. (ex: reproduction, eating, and sleeping are all things controlled here: helps with hormone release, remember the 4 f"s: feeding, fleeting, fighting, and fucking. Plays a major role in some kind of memory. Connects the 2 sides of the brain. The medulla is composed of tracts carrying signals between the rest of the brain and the body. It is responsible for the motor production of language. It is in the left hemisphere of the frontal lobe of most people. This area is needed for language comprehension. It is found in the left temporal lobe. This is caused by a loss of substantia nigra and the presence of lewi bodies. The substantia nigra is found in the midbrain.