what is the control center in the brain for breathing,swallowing,digestion and reflexes?
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Just to clear up some mistakes in an otherwise good answer- the fastest reflexes only require two neurons-large myelinated sensory axons can and do directly stimulate motorneurons.  The nervous system that control digestion is the enteric, not entric, and its Eric Kandel, not Kendel, who wrote the Fundamental of Neuroscience....If you are presenting a poster at this years SFN meeting and meet the guy, it might come in handy..
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Heart rate and blood pressure is controlled mainly from the cardiac center and the vasomotor center in the medulla respectively. Ventilation is controlled from centers in the medulla and pons. Both medulla and pons are part of the brain stem. In addition, there are also other peripheral baroreceptors (BP control), and chemoreceptors (ventilation rate control) involved.
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The limbic system is in the right hemisphere of the brain. The limbic system controls sensory, arousal and generating emotions. The hippocampus is responsible for memory. A good anatomy and physiology book is one by Martini. Hope this helps.
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Nervous system is the control center which consists of Brain, Spinal Cord and an enormous network of nerves that spread throughout your body. These nerves are responsible for the information flow between nervous system and other systems [ digestive, respiratory, circulatory etc etc ] in the entire body. Nervous system controls and coordinates the functioning of all other systems that exists in a body.
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The epiglottis is a thin, lid-like flap of cartilage tissue covered with a mucous membrane, attached to the root of the tongue, that guards the entrance of the glottis, the opening between the vocal cords. It is normally pointed upward, but when swallowing, solids or liquids stimulate sensors which folds down the epiglottis, and prevents food that should go into the esophagus and stomach from passing into the trachea (windpipe). The epiglottis is one of three large cartilaginous structures that make up the larynx (voice box).\n\nbasically it stops food from going down your throat the wrong way and choking you by getting into your lungs it sends food to the stomach
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Metabolic rate, vaso constriction, vaso dilation, sweating, shivering, goosebumps, water retention....these all are used to regulate body temperature. The process is controled by part of your brain at the back - the thymus (i think its called the thymus, but im not a physiologist!). Blood temperature is monitered and the list above varried.
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The tongue and throat are derived from ectoderm.  The nerves supplying the tongue are V for pain and touch, VII for taste on the anterior portion of the tongue, and IX for taste on the posterior portion of the tongue.  XII is the motor portion of the tongue.\nIn general sensory neurons are derived from the alar plate while the motor neurons are from the basal plate.  These come from the neural tube which is an infolding of ectoderm called neuroectoderm. \nNot sure if you need to know about the pharyngeal pouches.  If so you might read up in a medical embryology text.  I can't remember them off the top of my head but if i had to guess i'd say it was the 2nd pharyngeal pouch.
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If you think the brain and the heart work together then all organs work together with the Brain.  Asthma is a respiratory disease where the bronchioles shrink and close off restricting the amount of air getting into the air sacs.  If you have a serious attack you will lose consciousness because of the lack of oxygen to your brain, but most medication can prevent this from happening.
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The Cerebellum is the "CPU". It processes all the information. It is also the "USB port" because it is linked to the spine, or "USB cord". The lobes are the "Hard drives, CMOS" The sides are the keyoard and mouse, because they are the input devices.
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What middle are you talking about? The back of the brain controls the "middle!"
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The medulla oblongata is the lower portion of the brainstem, above the spinal cord, below the pons, and anterior to the cerebellum. It controls autonomic functions and relays nerve signals between the brain and spinal cord.
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The nervous system is divided into the central nervous system (which is the brain and spinal cord), and the peripheral nervous system. \n\nThe peripheral nervous system is everything outside the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). This peripheral nervous system is divided into the somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system. \n\nThe somatic nervous system controls your voluntary behavior (skeletal muscle), and the autonomic nervous system controls the internal organs (involuntary behavior such as smooth muscle contractions). The autonomic nervous system is further divided into the sympathetic division and the parasympathetic division. The actions of both of these divisions is antagonistic to each other, but they work together.\n\nLet's say you are in the woods and you see a bear coming after you. The sympathetic system increases your heart rate, epinephrine is secreted, constricts blood vessels to organs such as that are involved in the digestive process so that more blood goes to your muscles, dilates your pupils, widen bronchial passages, etc. The parasympathetic system does the opposite. If you are laying down on a couch after a meal, your parasympathetic system is in charge. Your heart rate will decrease (no point in increasing it since there is no major physical activity), more blood going to your digestive organs, pupils are not as dilated, etc. The parasympathetic system is the "rest and digest" system.
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it's located in the brain stem, part of the autonomic nervous system and is involved in connecting information between the cerebrum and cerebellum.
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The brain completly controls the human body, It depends on the part of the brain damaged by the tumaor, for example damage to the cerebellum could cause cerebal palsy or complete paralysis. damage to the midulla oblongatta could prevent functioning of autonomic functions and require life support.
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See the link and scroll down to "earthworm" for an interesting discussion of its segments and what they do.  One segment has the brain which controls movement.  Good luck.
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the brain. im pretty sure its the medula obligatta that allows you to balance yourself.
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heart, liver, stomach, brain