Neuro

• Parietal lobe is involved in the integration of sensory information like touch, pain, temperature
• The hippocampus is involved in memory encoding, which is necessary for the recall of the critical incident.
• The prefrontal cortex is involved in executive functioning and decision making, which is likely to be involved in answering the assessments in the tasks
• The amygdala is involved in emotional encoding, which is likely to be involved in recalling the critical incident.
• Semantic memory is memory for facts and knowledge
• Sensory memory is the system of memory which preserves information in its original sensory form, typically only for a fraction of a second.
• Episodic memory is long-term memory for personally experienced events. 
• Neural plasticity refers to the ability of the nervous system to modify itself, functionally and structurally, in response to experience or injury.
• Decreasing the membrane potential of a cell is referred to as hyperpolarization
• Increasing the membrane potential of a cell is referred to as depolarization
• In neurons, nucleus is found in soma
• Simplified structure of human brain

  A) parietal

  B) frontal

  C) occipital

  D) cerebellum

  E) temporal

  
• Frontal lobe is responsible for motor control, decision-making and long-term memory storage
• Occipital love is responsible for visual information
• Temporal lobe is responsible for olfaction, audition, language and emotion
• To study the activity of the brain or to which region blood flow, fMRI studies are used
• Part of the brain associated with language is left cerebral hemisphere of the cerebral cortex
• Broca's area is located at the frontal lobe and is associated with speech production
• Wernicke's area is located at the temporal lobe and is associated with speech comprehension
• Broka's aphasia is when a person cannot produce speech (mnemonic: speech is BROKEN)
• Wernicke's aphasia is when a person can hear information but cannot process it (mnemonic is the person asking WHAT)
• Hippocampus plays a role in learning and memory
• Thermoregulation is a function of hippothalamus and brain stem