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Drive vital functions, such as heart rate, breathing, digestion
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system Adds emotions, complex motives, increased memory abilities
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Enables reasoning, planning, creating,
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Involved in establishing long-term memories Amygdala involved in memory and emotion, particularly fear and aggression
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Serves as the brain’s blood-testing laboratory, constantly monitors blood to determine the condition of the body
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–Topmost layer of the brain; the bulbous cap over the limbic system
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cortex Thin gray-matter covering of the cerebrum; carries on thinking and perceiving Cerebral hemispheres The two walnut shaped halves of the cerebrum, connected by the corpus callosum
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Ability of the nervous system to adapt or change as the result of experience
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Tightly coiled threadlike structures along which the genes are organized
