The ventrolateral preoptic nucleus (VLPO) is a group of neurons in the hypothalamus that seem to be active during sleep. Their role seems to be inhibition of monoamines involves in wakefulness. Category: Cerebrum Other related archivesCerebrum, hypothalamus, monoamines, neurons

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Kapal:

skull or cerebrum

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In anatomy of animals, the archipallium the oldest region of the brain's pallium. The archipallium is often considered continguous with the olfactory cortex, but the extent of archipallium varies among species. In older species, such as fish, the archipallium makes up most of the cerebrum. Amphibians develop archipallium and paleopallium, whereas reptiles develop archipallium, paleopallium and a primitive neopallium. See also: Regions in the human brain ...

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The 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness is a heuristic model of consciousness proposed by Timothy Leary. Perhaps somehow reminiscing Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs, Leary believed the mind is best viewed as a collection of 8 "circuits", also called "gears" or "mini-brains". Each stage represents a higher stage of evolution than the one before it. The first four, which Leary presumed to reside in the left lobe of the cerebrum, are concerned with the survival of organisms on earth; the other four, which Leary suggested are found in the right lobe, are for use in the fu ...

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The cerebral cortex is a brain structure in vertebrates, including humans. It is the outermost layer of the cerebrum and has a grey color. (Hence the name "grey matter". Grey matter is formed by neurons and their fibers, and white matter below the grey matter of the cortex is formed predominantly by nerve fibers interconnecting cortical areas with each other and with subcortical structures.) The human cerebral co ...

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The vein of Galen (VG), also known as the great cerebral vein, is one of the large blood vessels in the skull draining the cerebrum (brain). It is prone to congenital defects, such as vein of Galen aneurysmal malformations (VGAM) and vein of Galen aneurysmal dilation (VGAD). It is named after its discoverer, the Greek physician Galen. Vein of Galen - External link. Illustration of vein from Gray's Anatomy HEAD: ARTERIES: carotid - common carotid - internal ca ...

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The telencephalon (te-len-seff-a-lon) is the technical name for a large region within the brain which is attributed many functions, which some groups would class as unique features which make humans stand out from other species. Many people refer to it as the cerebrum, but due to naming conventions of organs, is technically refered to as the telencephalon. As a more technical definition, the telencephalon refers to the cerebral hemispheres and other, smaller structures within the brain, despite the fact tha ...

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• Telencephalon - Programmed cell death
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• Telencephalon - Stages
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VG may stand for: VG Airlines VLM Airlines (IATA code) Norway's largest circulation newspaper, Verdens Gang Volume group British Virgin Islands: ISO country code An abbreviation of very good. Very Good, a quality grading (rating) for collectibles; better than Good and less than Excellent; also known as Very Fine (VF) Vein of Galen, a blood vessel in the cerebrum prone to congenital defects, e.g. vein of Galen aneurysmal malformation

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The frog has a highly developed nervous system which consists of a brain, spinal cord and nerves. Many parts of the frog's brain correspond with those of humans. The medulla regulates respiration, digestion, and other automatic functions. Muscular coordination and posture are controlled by the cerebellum. A frog has a very small cerebrum; that of a man is much larger (relatively). In humans, the cerebrum runs many important life processes. Frogs have ten cranial nerves (nerves which pass information from the outside directly to the br ...

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The cerebellum contains similar gray and white matter divisions as the cerebrum. Embedded within the white matter—which is known as the arbor vitae (Tree of Life) in the cerebellum due to its branched, treelike appearance—are four deep cerebellar nuclei. Three gross phylogenetic segments are largely grouped by general function. The three cortical layers contain various cellular types that often create various feedback and feedforward loops. Oxygenated blood is supplied by three arterial branches off the basilar and vertebral arteries. See also:

Cerebellum, Cerebellum - General features, Cerebellum - Development and evolution, Cerebellum - Anatomy, Cerebellum - Divisions, Cerebellum - Deep nuclei, Cerebellum - Cortical layers, Cerebellum - Peduncles, Cerebellum - Blood supply, Cerebellum - Dysfunction, Cerebellum - Lesions of the cerebellum, Cerebellum - Ischemia and thrombosis, Cerebellum - Theories about cerebellar function, Cerebellum - Cerebellar modeling

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The occipital lobes are the smallest of four true lobes in the human brain. Located in the rearmost portion of the skull, the occipital lobes are part of the forebrain structure. The lobes rest on the tentorium cerebelli, a process of dura mater that separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum. They are structurally isolated in their respective cerebral hemispheres by the separation of the cerebral fissure. The front edge of the occipital lobe is separated from the parietal lobe by the Parieto-occipital sulcus. The sides of the lobe merge with the parietal lobes along a vague boundary defined by several lateral occipital gyri, which ...

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The neopallium consists of grey matter surrounding the deeper white matter of the cerebrum. While the neopallium is smooth in rats and some other small mammals, it has deep grooves (sulci) and wrinkles (gyri) in primates and several other mammals. These folds serve to increase the area of the neopallium considerably. In humans it accounts for about 80% of the brain's weight. The structure of the neopallium is relatively uniform (whence the names "iso" and "homotypical"): it consists of six horizontal layers segregated by cell type, ne ...

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Neopallium, Neopallium - Anatomy, Neopallium - Evolution

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The micturition reflex is activated when the urinary bladder wall is stretched; it results in urination. This reflex occurs in the spinal cord, specifically in the sacral region that is modified by the higher centers in the brain: the pons and cerebrum. The presence of urine in the bladder stimulates the stretch receptors, which produces action potential. The action potentials are carried by sensory neurons to the sacral segments of the spinal cord through the pelvic nerves the parasympathetic fibers carry the action potentials ...

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Although folklore about putatively 90% dormant human brain has proven scientifically unfounded, researchers until the mid 1990s focused on only a small portion of the brain in efforts to understand its computational capacity. Grey matter, the thin layer of cells covering the cerebrum, was believed by most scholars to be the primary center of cognitive and conscious processing. White matter, the mass of glial cells that support the cerebral grey matter, was assumed to primarily provide nourishment, physical support and connective pathw ...

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Where known, the ICD-10 code is listed below. Cephalic disorder - Anencephaly Q00.0. See anencephaly Cephalic disorder - Colpocephaly ICD10 unknown. This is a disorder in which there is an abnormal enlargement of the occipital horns - the posterior or rear portion of the lateral ventricles (cavities or chambers) of the brain. This enlargement occurs when there is an underdevelopment or lack of thickening of the white matter in the posterior cerebrum. Colpocephaly ...

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Cephalic disorder, Cephalic disorder - More common cephalic disorders, Cephalic disorder - Anencephaly Q00.0, Cephalic disorder - Colpocephaly ICD10 unknown, Cephalic disorder - Holoprosencephaly Q04.2, Cephalic disorder - Ethmocephaly ICD10 unknown, Cephalic disorder - Hydranencephaly Q04.3, Cephalic disorder - Iniencephaly Q00.2, Cephalic disorder - Lissencephaly Q04.3, Cephalic disorder - Megalencephaly Q04.5, Cephalic disorder - Microcephaly Q02, Cephalic disorder - Porencephaly Q04.6, Cephalic disorder - Schizencephaly Q04.6, Cephalic disorder - Less common cephalies, Cephalic disorder - Acephaly Q00.0, Cephalic disorder - Exencephaly ICD10 unknown, Cephalic disorder - Macrocephaly Q75.3, Cephalic disorder - Micrencephaly Q02, Cephalic disorder - Otocephaly Q18.2, Cephalic disorder - Craniostenosis ICD10 unknown, Cephalic disorder - Notes

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Somnambulism [from Latin somnus sleep + ambulare to walk]

Sleepwalking; in this condition the person moves about as if entranced, like a human automaton. Though unconscious, he may read, write, compose music or poetry, execute skilled movements, tread dangerous heights safely, etc.; he may not only carry out the various activities of his waking state, but may perform both physical and mental feats of which he is normally incapable. He may then return to his bed, still asleep, and upon awakening retain no memory of his strange experience.

The puzzle of this psychophysiological state is explained by the ability of the different selves of composite human nature to function consciously upon the several planes of his own being. For instance, the ordinary somnambulist may be conscious in his own astral body which then is reflexly stimulating the instinctual cerebellum which presides over bodily movements and functions.

Such a case is analogous to the unusual performances of an entranced medium. As in common dreams at night, so in sleep walking, one part of the brain, say the cerebrum, may be asleep, while the cerebellum may be awake and active. In rare cases, however, the somnambulist may so far transcend his usual character that he evidently is functioning above the astral level of his nature.

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AIDS (GENETIC WAR)

Since some believe that the virus is man-made, specifically designed to attack the most important alternative to procreation (male homosexuality), we cannot see it as responding to psychic suggestions to change its habits. If it were a naturally occurring life-form, it would be automatically part of the evolutionary stream and quite attuned, even ready for "mental" implementation of punctuated morphogenesis. We are beginning to see that this is indeed a "war" and learning at the same time that war at every level derives from a basic misunderstanding of human social interaction and hardly occurs at all within the biosphere itself

Evolution is neither a battle for the survival of the fittest, nor is it the chaotic result of random mutations. We now know that the origin of species proceeds in cooperation with and as part of the conscious continuum of all life. Evolution, when the time is right, moves by quantum leaps to sudden new stages, as if by common consent. It's only through human interference that some single, bizarre weed winds up choking everything else out. In the highly unnatural case of the HIV virus, what we are seeing is a device specifically designed to pollute all the streams of life at once (generation, nurture and maintenance). It is a quite human-like biological tyrant bent on specific genocide

In studying Sheldrake's "punctuated evolution" we suddenly understand why our intuition has already told us that the HIV virus was man-made (or engineered). As a naturally-occurring genetic leap, HIV is too fantastic to consider. Even if abrupt evolutionary leaps were the rule, not the exception, and even if evolution itself is part of the omni-conscious sphere of synchronous reality-alternation, it's still too giant a biodic jump for a virus suddenly to decide to take up residence within the human DNA factory merely in order to bypass that annoying (to it!) "somatic individuation" phase. Viruses don't become that sophisticated that quickly. It's the equivalent of the next generation of the human race suddenly to be born with fully-functioning wings sprouting out of everyone's shoulder blades.

The theory, or course, amongst bio-metaphysicians, is that the body is merely a highly practical mechanism for the housing and passing on of the genetic code. One of the body's more clever defenses is the brain, designed to repair itself, built to last at least twice as long as any other organ and encased in a hard, nearly impregnable shell (the skull). But the cerebrum isn't just a defender of the body. It has, so to speak, a mind of its own and its own goals preempt the instincts. What's more, cerebral goals conflict with the goals of the genes. AIDS and the whole contemporary world of the 90's - with its pollution, rain forest depletions, baby boom, etc. - constitute the casualties of a genetic war directed specifically against the cortex, occurring on a deeply subnatural level of the global collective unconscious

As there are mental and spiritual planes, so there are various material planes. The "common consent" of the whole earth consciousness has been shattered in our time and the result is an insane interplanary (sic) war between the goals of the DNA and the goals of the human brain. Ideally, these goals should coincide, as with planned eugenics. Instead, we have mindless acquiescence to the genetic urge to procreate at any cost - regardless of the hideous consequences of overpopulation. Genetic consciousness knows only bodily success. It has no way of perceiving the larger context which is visible to the cortex: pollution, famine, despair, etc.

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In anatomy, the centromedian nucleus, also known as the centrum medianum, (CM or Cm-Pf) is a part of the intralaminar nucleus (ILN) of the thalamus. There are two centromedian nuclei arranged bilaterally. It contains about 2000 neurons per cubic millimetre and has a volume of about 300 cubic millimetres with 600,000 neurons in total. It sends nerve fibres to the caudate, putamen and collateral fibres to the cerebral cortex. It receives nerve fibres from the cerebral cortex, vestibular nuclei, globus pallidus, superio ...

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Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is the frontal part of the cingulate cortex and includes Brodmann's area 24 (ventral ACC) and 32 (dorsal ACC). The ACC forms a collar around the corpus callosum, which relays neural signals between the right and left hemispheres. The ACC appears to play a role in a wide variety of autonomic functions, such as regulating heart rate and blood pressure, and is vital to cognitive functions, such as reward anticipation, decision-making, empathy, and emotion. Neuroscientists indicate the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex is primarily related to rational cog ...

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