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  2. Tears - Wikipedia

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    The functions of tears include lubricating the eyes (basal tears), removing irritants (reflex tears), and also aiding the immune system. [3] Tears also occur as a part of the body's natural pain response. [4] Emotional secretion of tears may serve a biological function by excreting stress-inducing hormones built up through times of emotional ...

  3. Crying - Wikipedia

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    In Hippocratic and medieval medicine, tears were associated with the bodily humors, and crying was seen as purgation of excess humors from the brain. [13] William James thought of emotions as reflexes prior to rational thought, believing that the physiological response, as if to stress or irritation, is a precondition to cognitively becoming ...

  4. Table of cranial nerves - Wikipedia

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    Receives the special sense of taste from the epiglottis. A major function: controls muscles for voice and resonance and the soft palate. Symptoms of damage: dysphagia (swallowing problems), velopharyngeal insufficiency. This nerve is involved (together with nerve IX) in the pharyngeal reflex or gag reflex. XI Accessory

  5. Pontine tegmentum - Wikipedia

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    The pontine tegmentum contains two predominately cholinergic nuclei, the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) and the laterodorsal tegmental nucleus, which project widely throughout the brain. [2] The PPN is involved in many functions, including arousal, attention, learning, reward, voluntary limb movements and locomotion.

  6. Human brain - Wikipedia

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    These areas receive input from the sensory areas and lower parts of the brain and are involved in the complex cognitive processes of perception, thought, and decision-making. [24] The main functions of the frontal lobe are to control attention, abstract thinking, behaviour, problem-solving tasks, and physical reactions and personality.

  7. Outline of the human brain - Wikipedia

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    Broca's area – region of the brain with functions linked to speech production Triangular part of inferior frontal gyrus – part of Broca's area that contributes to propositional (true/false) language comprehension; Caudate nucleus – located within the basal ganglia and involved in learning and memory

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    But these two things to try and say that we're pro-children but we don't like this or, or you guys are pro abortion, that's not the case at all. We are pro freedoms for women to make their choices.

  9. Brain - Wikipedia

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    Computational neuroscience encompasses two approaches: first, the use of computers to study the brain; second, the study of how brains perform computation. On one hand, it is possible to write a computer program to simulate the operation of a group of neurons by making use of systems of equations that describe their electrochemical activity ...