Week 13 — Readings & Resources

Human Anatomy and Physiology I Free sample edition

Your primary reading is Chapter 13 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 10 items (4 readings and 6 videos). Allow 56–67 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (18–21 min total)

① Which lobe does which job

Chapter 13, Section “Give each lobe its job” · Session 1, Segment 3, “Give each lobe its job” · Remember: the frontal lobe moves you, the parietal lobe feels, the temporal lobe hears, and the occipital lobe sees.

Neuroanatomy: The Basics — Dana Foundation — a plain-language fact sheet from a brain-science foundation that tours the folded surface, the four lobes, and gray and white matter; check its lobe-by-lobe jobs against the chapter, and treat the extra language areas it names as beyond this course. Use it while completing the Week-13 module overview. (reading, 6–9 min)
Central Nervous System: Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology #11 — CrashCourse — a fast, friendly episode that tours the brain from the cerebrum down to the brainstem and the spinal cord; as you watch, write each region beside its job, and listen for the cerebellum's role in smoothing movement. (video, 10 min) (captions: creator)
Meet Your Master - Getting to Know Your Brain: Crash Course Psychology #4 — CrashCourse — a second episode that walks the brain from the stem upward; keep to the brainstem, the thalamus, the hypothalamus, the cerebellum, and the four lobes, and skip the parts on brain imaging and the limbic system, which go beyond this course. (video, 13 min) (captions: creator)
Neuroscience Basics: Human Brain Anatomy and Lateralization of Brain Function, 3D Animation. — Alila Medical Media — a short animation that rotates the brain so you can see each lobe from the side; pause it at each lobe and say its job aloud, and treat the later part on the two sides of the brain as optional. (video, 5 min) (captions: creator)

② Deep inside and wrapped up: the inner brain and the meninges

Chapter 13, Section “Tell the relay from the regulator: the thalamus and the hypothalamus” · Session 1, Segment 5, “Tell the relay from the regulator: the thalamus and the hypothalamus” · Remember: the thalamus relays sensations to the cortex, and the hypothalamus holds internal conditions steady.

Brain Basics: Know Your Brain — National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke — a plain-language government page; read the sections on the structure of the brain, the cerebral cortex, the lobes, and the inner brain, where the hypothalamus and thalamus appear, then stop before the sections on the neuron and the synapse. (reading, 5–8 min)
2-Minute Neuroscience: The Meninges — Neuroscientifically Challenged — a two-minute animation of the three wrappings around the brain; say the order outer to inner before it plays, then check yourself, and notice where the fluid-filled space sits. (video, 2 min) (captions: creator)

③ The fast loop: reflexes in the spinal cord

Chapter 13, Section “Order the reflex arc” · Session 2, Segment 10, “Order the reflex arc” · Remember: receptor, sensory neuron, interneuron, motor neuron, effector, with the spinal cord doing the deciding.

Understanding Involuntary Movements — BrainFacts.org, Society for Neuroscience — a short feature from a neuroscience society on reflexes that run in or near the spinal cord, including a foot pulled off a sharp object; read it for the withdrawal reflex and for how the opposing muscle is quieted. (reading, 3–5 min)
2-Minute Neuroscience: Withdrawal Reflex — Neuroscientifically Challenged — a two-minute animation of the hot-object reflex from the skin to the spinal cord and back out to the muscle; name the five parts of the arc in order as they appear. This builds on Week 12's work with neurons and the nerve impulse. (video, 2 min) (captions: creator)
Overview of the Nervous System, Animation — Alila Medical Media — a short animation that sorts the nervous system into the brain and spinal cord on one side and the nerves on the other; use it to fix the difference between the CNS and the PNS. (video, 4 min) (captions: creator)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

The Central Nervous System — SEER Training Modules, National Cancer Institute — the course's free online anatomy reference, open at its page on the central nervous system; read the sections on the meninges, the brain, the ventricles and cerebrospinal fluid, and the spinal cord, and skip the tumor material. It counts the cerebrum's lobes differently from this course; use the four lobes taught here. (reading, 6–9 min)

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