Data

Copy and paste the text below. It is read-only. Select All

medulla oblongata regulate heartbeat, breathing, blood pressure, vomiting, coughing cerebellum smoothes and coordinates skilled skeletal muscle movement; also posture and balance pineal gland secretes melatonin that controls the sleep-wake cycle hypothalamus controls autonomic nervous system; regulates hormones, emotional behavior, temperature, eating, and drinking behavior cerebral cortex interprets sensory input, controls skilled skeletal muscle movements; involved in emotional/intellectual processes pons helps control breathing; conducts impulses to and from the cerebellum, midbrain, and medulla thalamus relays all sensory input to the cerebral cortex; involved in skeletal muscle actions and memory processing corpora quadrigemma coordinates visual and auditory reflexes basal nuclei coordinates gross, automatic muscle movements; also involved in limbic system corpus callosum white fiber tracts communicating between hemispheres oculomotor movement of eyelid, eyeball, pupillary constriction trochlear superior oblique eyeball muscle trigeminal ophthalmic, maxillary, madibular areas, chewing abducens lateral rectus eyeball muscle facial taste, facial expression; secretion of tears; salivation vestibulocochlear equilibrium, hearing glossopharyngeal taste, swallowing and speech; secretion of saliva vagus taste, somatic sensation from pharynx, epiglottis, swallowing, coughing, voice production, smooth muscle contraction of GI tract accesory swallowing, movement of head/shoulders hypoglossal speech and swallowing, tongue muscles