Brain Anatomy

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Across
  1. 5. important roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory and in spatial memory that enables navigation
  2. 6. a set of brain structures (olfactory bulbs, hippocampus, hypothalamus, and amygdala)
  3. 7. central trunk of the brain; controls mostly automatic functions
  4. 11. middle of the parietal lobe, deals with sensory information (soft, hot, cold, etc.)
  5. 13. a large mass of gray matter with several functions such as relaying sensory and motor signals to the cerebral cortex, and the regulation of consciousness, sleep, and alertness
  6. 15. the reticular formation is a set of interconnected nuclei located throughout the brainstem playing a crucial role in maintaining behavioral arousal and consciousness
  7. 16. plays an important role in motor control, and it may also be involved in some cognitive functions such as attention and language as well as in regulating fear and pleasure responses, but its movement-related functions are the most solidly established
  8. 18. two hemispheres are joined beneath the cortex by the corpus callosum,the cerebral cortex plays a key role in memory, attention, perception, awareness, thought, language, and consciousness
  9. 19. the motor cortex is the region of the cerebral cortex involved in the planning, control, and execution of voluntary movements
Down
  1. 1. primary role in the processing of memory, decision-making, and emotional reactions, the amygdala are considered part of the limbic system
  2. 2. vision
  3. 3. deals primarily with sleep, respiration, swallowing, bladder control, hearing, equilibrium, taste, eye movement, facial expressions, facial sensation, and posture
  4. 4. white matter at the center of the brain connecting the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex
  5. 8. contains heart and respiratory centers;deals with autonomic functions like breathing, blood pressure, anything with the respiratory and heart centers
  6. 9. speaking, planning, logic, personality, abstract thinking, problem-solving
  7. 10. sensory: touch and body position
  8. 12. transmits smell information from the nose to the brain and is thus necessary for a proper sense of smell
  9. 14. controls body temperature, hunger, parenting/attachment behaviors, thirst, fatigue, sleep, and circadian rhythms
  10. 17. audition(hearing)