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Where is the somatosensory cortex located
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Parietal lobe
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Where is the motor cortex located
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Frontal lobe
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First order neurons is responsible for?
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Transmit sensory information from the periphery to the CNS
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Second order neurons is responsible for?
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Communiciate with various reflex networks and sensory parthways in the spinal cord and travel directly to the thalamus
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Third order neuronds is responsible for?
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Relaying information from the thalamus to the cerebral cortex
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The somatosensory System is organized
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It is organized segmentally into dermatomes, with each segment supplied bya s single dorsal root ganglion that contains the neuronal cell bodies for the sensory units of the segment
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Dermatones
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The region of the body wall that is supplied by a single pair of dorsal root ganglia.
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Reticular formation
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It helps matian consciousness, causes awakening from sleep and contributers to regulating muscle tone.
controlls basic breathing, eating and locomotion functions. alarm and arousal system. |
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Cerebrum
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It is the largest part of the brain
it is made up of the right and left hemisphere. Each hemisphere controls the contralateral side of the body. Each hemisphere has four lobes |
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Major divisions of the brain
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The forebrain- cerebrum and the diencephalon
midbrain Hind brain : pons medulla oblongata cerebellum |
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There are four lobes
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Frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, temporal lobe
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Frontal lobe
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Contains the motor cortex
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Parietal lobe
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Somatosensory cortex
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Temporal lobe
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Auditory and olfactory stimuli
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Occipital Lobe
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Interprets visual stimuli
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