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Brain & Spinal Cord flash Cards
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| The pons | controls sleep, respiration, swallowing, bladder function, equilibrium, eye movement, facial expressions, and posture. |
| medulla | along with the spinal cord involved in a wide variety of sensory and motor functions |
| hypothalamus | regulates sleep and wake cycles, eating and drinking, hormone release, and many other critical biological functions |
| thalamus | relays information to and from the cerebral hemispheres, in motivation, and several types of "consummatory" behaviors, including eating, drinking, defecation, and copulation |
| cerebellum | modulates the outputs of other brain systems to make them precise. Removal of this brain part makes an animal’s actions hesitant and clumsy |
| hippocampus | found only in mammals but counterpart in other vertebrates involved in spatial memory and navigation in fishes, birds, reptiles, and mammals |
| basal ganglia | send inhibitory signals to all parts of the brain that can generate motor behaviors |
| olfactory bulb | a special structure that processes sensory signals for smell and sends its output to that part of the pallium (cerebral cortex) |
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