PSY 324 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cerebral Cortex, Occipital Lobe, Optogenetics
11 Apr 2020
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Neuroanatomy: the anatomy of the nervous system. The spinal cord: communicates with all the sense organs and muscles except those of the head. It has long been known for its contributions to the control of movement. In older textbooks describe the cerebellum as important for. It is also essential for monitoring where you are and where you are going: amygdala, most central for evaluating emotional information, mainly w fear, cingulate gyrus of the cerebral cortex. Just as a person weighs less in water than on land, cerebrospinal fluid helps support the weight of the brain. It also provides a reservoir of hormones and nutrition for the brain and spinal cord. The cells on the outer surface of the cerebral cortex are gray matter, and their axons extending inward are white matter. Neurons in each hemisphere communicate with neurons in the corresponding part of the other hemisphere through 2 bundles of axons, the corpus callosum and the smaller anterior commissure.
