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The hemisphere that controls language and problem solving
Maintains your body's internal balance, which is known as homeostasis. Controls body temperature, thirst, hunger, and other homeostatic systems, and is involved in sleep and emotional activity.
Helps coordinate responses to things in your environment, especially those that trigger an emotional response. This structure plays an important role in fear and anger, aka "Fight or Flight".
Ensures both sides of the brain can communicate and send signals to each other. Connects right and left hemispheres, helping either hemisphere to share information.
Relays memory and motor signals, as well as regulation of consciousness. (Ex: sleep, consciousness, alertness)
A complex brain structure that controls emotional memory recalling and regulation, and supports memory, learning, navigation, and perception of space. It can be affected in a variety of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Connects the cerebrum to the spinal cord. It's responsible for regulating most of the body's automatic functions that are essential for life, including: breathing, heart rate, body temperature, wake and sleep cycles, digestion, sneezing, coughing, vomiting, blinking, and swallowing.
The "Little brain", located at the very back of the head. It coordinates voluntary muscle movement, and maintains posture, balance, and equilibrium, as well as motor learning and sense of body.
Its job is to send motor commands from the brain to the body, send sensory information from the body to the brain, and coordinate reflexes. Also carries nerve signals throughout the body.
Senses the body's needs and sends signals to different organs and glands to regulate their function and maintain an appropriate environment. Also known as the "master gland", its main function is to secrete hormones into your bloodstream.
The hemisphere that controls creativity, spatial ability, artistic, and musical skills
The largest part of the brain; initiates and coordinates movement and regulates temperature. Enables speech, judgement, thinking and reasoning, problem-solving, emotions, and learning. Other functions relate to vision, hearing, touch, and other senses.
increase the surface area & efficiency of absorption in the small intestine (jejunum/ilium)
saliva + food = small round mass for easier transport through digestive system
small intestine makes secretin when acidic chyme enters --> secretin stimulates bicarbonate into the duodenum --> bicarbonate is basic and neutralizes the acidic chyme
no, it is made from cholesterol in the liver... the liver stores bile in the gallbladder
stimulates parietal cells to release gastric juice, stimulates chief cell secretions
stomach acid moves backwards into the esophagus through cardiac sphincter
albumin is a major protein that is made almost exclusively by the liver, blood clotting factors are also produced by the liver
hormone secreted by the small intestine that signals for accessory organs to help in the process of digestion