sheep practical functions

4th ventricle

Produces cerebrospinal fluid

Central canal

Transport nutrients, protection for the spinal cord

Cerebellum

Muscle Coordination, maintenance of posture and equilibrium

Corpus callosum

Nerve Fibers - Transfers sensory and motor signals between hemispheres

Cortex

Perception, memory, language, voluntary movement

Frontal lobe

Voluntary movement, personality, memory, speech, smell (olfactory)

Gray matter

Processing information (cerebrum, cerebral cortex)

Gyrus

Increases the brain’s surface

Lateral ventricle

Circulates cerebrospinal fluid

Longitudinal fissure

Separates the two hemispheres

Medulla oblongata

Regulates heat rate, respiration(breathing rate), swallowing and vomitying reflexes

Midbrain

Controls Eye movement and eye reflexes

Occipital lobe

Vision center

Oculomotor nerve

Controls eyelids

Olfactory bulb

Smell

Optic chiasm

Sends information from each eye to the brain (left eye - right side of the brain, right eye - left side of the brain)

Optic nerve

Vision, sends visual signals to the brain

Parietal lobe

Heat, cold, pain, touch, taste

Pons

Helps medulla regulate breathing

Septum pellucidum

Separates the anterior horns of the left & right ventricles

Spinal cord

Connects the brain to the rest of the body

Sulcus

Separates regions of the brain

Thalamus

Relay center for sensory impulses to the cortex

White matter

Nerve fibers, transmits information throughout the brain