Directions: Using the Anatomy book pages 447-451, answer the following questions. If it's a short answer question you can just type in the answer, but for the essay questions respond in a complete sentence.
Question 1
1.
What regions are a part of the brain stem?
Question 2
2.
What behaviors for survival are produced by the brain stem?
Question 3
3.
Describe the location and shape of the midbrain.
Question 4
4.
What controls the “fight-or-flight” response?
Question 5
5.
Explain the function of the superior colliculi.
Question 6
6.
What does the inferior colliculi do?
Question 7
7.
What does the degeneration of the substantia nigra lead to?
Question 8
8.
Where is the pons located?
Question 9
9.
What does pons mean?
Question 10
10.
What do the projection fibers of the pons connect?
Question 11
11.
Where is the medulla oblongota located?
Question 12
12.
Where do the fibers cross over?
Question 13
13.
What is the significance of this cross over?
Question 14
14.
Why is the medulla crucial?
Question 15
15.
List the three visceral motor nuclei in the medulla.
Question 16
16.
What does the vasomotor center do?
Question 17
17.
Give some examples of other centers that the medulla controls.
Question 18
18.
How is the overlap of the functions of the hypothalamus and medulla explained?