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1
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Frontal

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Thinking and planning

2
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Parietal

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Sensory and integration

3
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Occipital

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Visual

4
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Temporal

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Auditory and memory

5
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Cingulate

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Limbic and emotion

6
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Insular

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Taste

7
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Corona radiata

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to and from cortex

8
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Corpus callosum

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cortex to cortex

9
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Anterior commisure

A

amygdala to amygdala
olfactory to olfactory
temperature to temperature

10
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Posterior commisure

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pupillary light reflex

11
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Striatum

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caudate and putamen

12
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Globus pallidus

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movement

13
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Nucelus accumbens

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reward, pleasure, laughter, addiction, fear, aggresion

14
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Amygdala

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rage and aggression

emotional learning

15
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Hippocampus

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memory sends fibers into fornix which go into mammillary bodies of hypothalamus

16
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Septal nuclei

A

memory

17
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Broca’s area

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speech

18
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precentral gyrus

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motor area

19
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postcentral gyrus

A

somatosensory

20
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sensory integration

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happens in back of parietal lobe

21
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Wernicke’s area

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interpret auditory and visual and sensory- interpret language- written and spoken

22
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Longitudinal fissure

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divides left and right hemispheres of brain

23
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prefrontal cortex

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thought and forethought

24
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sensory integration

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pain temp touch vision hearing all come together to help us understand the world

25
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auditory cortex

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right at border of temporal and parietal and for understanding sounds

26
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prefrontal cortex

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thought and forethought

27
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sensory integration

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pain temp touch vision hearing all come together to help us understand the world

28
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auditory cortex

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right at border of temporal and parietal and for understanding sounds