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Clinical pharmacy 2024/2025 Level 2 Pharm D Physiology and Pathophysiology (MD303)
For description purposes each hemisphere of the cerebrum is divided into lobes which

Parts take the names of the bones of the cranium under which they lie ➔ frontal.
Parietal. Temporal. Occipital.

1. Mental Involved in memory, intelligence, sense of responsibility,
activities thinking, reasoning, moral sense and learning are

attributed to the higher centers.

Function 2. Sensory including the perception of pain, temperature, touch,
perception sight, hearing, taste and smell

3. Initiation and Of skeletal (voluntary) muscle contraction
control

2.Diencephalon

Function * It connects the cerebrum with the midbrain.

* It consists of several structures; the most important structures are the
Structure
thalamus and the hypothalamus.

Thalamus Hypothalamus.

(Classification of Input) A) Controls the output of hormones from both lobes of the
1. Processing of some emotions pituitary gland.

and complex reflexes. B) Other functions

2. It relays and redistributes 1- Thirst and water balance.
impulses from most parts of the 2-Autonomic nervous system.

brain to the cerebral cortex. 3- Body temperature
4- Sexual behavior

5- Appetite and satiety
6- Biological clocks or circadian rhythms,

7- Emotional reactions, e.g. pleasure, fear & rage.

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