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  2. Reticular formation - Wikipedia

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    Ascending reticular activating system. Reticular formation labeled near center. The ascending reticular activating system (ARAS), also known as the extrathalamic control modulatory system or simply the reticular activating system (RAS), is a set of connected nuclei in the brains of vertebrates that is responsible for regulating wakefulness and ...

  3. Pedunculopontine nucleus - Wikipedia

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    The pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) or pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPT or PPTg) is a collection of neurons located in the upper pons in the brainstem. [1] [2] It is involved in voluntary movements, [3] arousal, and provides sensory feedback to the cerebral cortex and one of the main components of the ascending reticular activating system.

  4. Locus coeruleus - Wikipedia

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    The 'English' name locus coeruleus [41] is actually a Latin expression consisting of the noun, locus, "place" or "spot" [42] and the adjective coeruleus, "dark blue" [42] or "sky-blue". [ 43 ] [ 44 ] This was aptly translated into English as blue place in 1907 in the English translation [ 45 ] of the official Latin anatomic nomenclature of 1895 ...

  5. Parabrachial nuclei - Wikipedia

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    The subparabrachial nucleus (also known as the Kölliker-Fuse nucleus, or diffuse reticular nucleus) regulates the breathing rate. It receives signals from the caudal , cardio-respiratory part of the solitary nucleus and sends signals to the lower medulla oblongata , the spinal cord , the amygdala and the lateral hypothalamus .

  6. Arousal - Wikipedia

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    Arousal is the physiological and psychological state of being awoken or of sense organs stimulated to a point of perception. It involves activation of the ascending reticular activating system (ARAS) in the brain, which mediates wakefulness, the autonomic nervous system, and the endocrine system, leading to increased heart rate and blood pressure and a condition of sensory alertness, desire ...

  7. Neuroscience of sleep - Wikipedia

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    The ascending reticular activating system consists of a set of neural subsystems that project from various thalamic nuclei and a number of dopaminergic, noradrenergic, serotonergic, histaminergic, cholinergic, and glutamatergic brain nuclei.

  8. What is 'lucky girl syndrome'? Inside the viral manifestation ...

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    By doing this, people are training their mind's reticular activating system, which Conner describes as "a system in your brain that filters out unnecessary information so the important things can ...

  9. Spinoreticular tract - Wikipedia

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    The tract transmits slow nociceptive/pain information (but thermal, and crude touch information as well) from the spinal cord to reticular formation which in turn relays the information to the thalamus via reticulothalamic fibers as well as to other parts of the brain (as opposed to the spinothalamic tract - the direct pathway of the ...