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The brain stem is necessary to control all involuntary functions in the human body. Signals are sent up and down the brain stem that tell your heart to beat and your lungs to breathe.
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Is the brainstem made up of the hindbrain and midbrain?
The brainstem is made up of midbrain. Not sure about hindbrain.
What does the midbrain pons and medulla oblongata make up?
brainstem
What is the brainstem used for?
The brainstem provides the main motor and sensory innervation to the face and neck via the cranial nerves. The brainstem also plays an important role in the regulation of cardiac and respiratory function.
What structure in the brainstem is required for life?
The entire brainstem is required for life.
What does the brainstem function?
it fuctions by senting nerve mesages up and down the stem its self
The brainstem is to arousal as the limbic system is to?
The brainstem is to arousal as the limbic system is to emotion.
What part of the brain is reticular formation?
Inside the brainstem
What is it called when the brainstem is pushed through the base of the skull?
This is called brainstem herniation and may result in coma or death due to pressure on the vital respiratory centers in the brainstem.
Is the brainstem white matter or gray matter?
cortex is gray consisiting of neuron cell bodies.
Is sheep brainstem bigger or smaller then a human brainstem?
it is smaller sheep are very dump animals
Is the brainstem the upper most layer of the brain?
No, the brainstem is down low, like the stem of a flower.
What is the main purpose of the brainstem?
Brainstem regulates the breathing, heart rate, sleeping and etaing. All information relayed from the body to the cerebrum and cerebellum and vice versa.And the brainstem transveres it.
