“Here we see two different kinds of neurons: a Purkinje cell found in the cerebellum and a pyramidal cell I picked up in the motor area of the cerebral cortex.

Right skin, Left eye

31 pairs of spinal nerves

Breathing and heart rate

The bridge Additional neurons pass through the pons to relay information about arousal, sleep, and dreaming to higher structures.”

Little brain Smooth movements alcohol

arousal

motor symptoms as tremor of the hands, particularly at rest, and slowed movements.” parkinsons

Tel: ascending sensory information ends up.

thalamus functions as the main relay station for most sensory messages–visual, auditory, skin sensory, and taste. Note that olfactory information is not included in this list.

“Below the thalamus lies the hypothalamus, a small structure about the size of two peanuts on the underside of your brain. If you had a tumor near the hypothalamus, the surgeon would approach it through the roof of your mouth, which should give you some idea of where it is.” fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating “Pituitary,” he says, “comes from pituita, meaning ‘phlegm,’ or to put it less politely, ‘snot.’ Can you guess why the early anatomists named it ‘snot gland?’”

amygdala, or almond-shaped structure, plays a key role in our experience of anger and fear fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating “Pituitary,” he says, “comes from pituita, meaning ‘phlegm,’ or to put it less politely, ‘snot.’ Can you guess why the early anatomists named it ‘snot gland?’”

hippocampus, which is Latin for ‘seahorse,’ is importantly involved in memory processes

Parkinsons and huntingtons: motor disease

FRONTAL LOBE• Located in front.• Concerned with reasoning, planning, judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.

PARIETAL LOBE• Located on the top back area.• Concerned with processing higher sensory and language functions.

TEMPORAL LOBE• Located above and around the ears.• Concerned with perception and recognition of auditory stimuli (hearing), memory, meaning, and language

OCCIPITAL LOBE• Located at the back of the brain, behind the parietal lobe and temporal lobe.• Concerned with many aspects of vision

bodily senses— touch, pain, pressure, temperature, and body position.

. . . I was asked to see him because he constantly fell out of bed at night for which the cardiologists could find no reason. When I asked him what happened at night he said quite openly that when he woke . . . he always found that there was a dead, cold, hairy leg in bed with him which he could not understand but could not tolerate and he, therefore, with his good arm and leg pushed it out of bed and naturally, of course, the rest of him followed. there.

He was such an excellent example of this complete loss of awareness of his . . . limb but, interestingly enough, I could not get him to tell me whether his own leg on that side was in bed with him because he was so caught up with the unpleasant foreign leg that was

Temporal lobe: visual object recognition Wernicke’s area: speech, but makes no sense