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arousal and vital autonomic functions.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the brain stem as an anatomical region comprising the midbrain, pons and medulla oblongata, including its intrinsic nuclei, traversing pathways and interfaces with adjacent nervous structures; human anatomy is the default, with species recorded explicitly.", "in_scope": [ "Midbrain, pons and medulla boundaries and internal organisation", "Intrinsic nuclei, reticular formation and traversing neural pathways", "Interfaces with the spinal cord, diencephalon, cerebellum and cranial nerves", "Contributions to autonomic regulation, arousal, sensorimotor transmission and cranial nerve functions", "Regional blood supply, tissue integrity and documented structural abnormalities", "Brain-stem-specific observations, their provenance and limits of interpretation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole-brain organisation and cognition beyond brain-stem contributions", "Cerebellum, cerebral hemispheres, diencephalon and spinal cord as 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[ { "id": "tract-and-laterality-map", "name": "Tract and laterality map", "description": "Records implicated pathways and how their course affects interpretation of sided findings.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sensory, motor or cerebellar pathways traverse the observed region?", "kind": "definition", "id": "tract-and-laterality-map-q01" }, { "text": "Where does each relevant pathway cross relative to the observation, and what evidence supports the recorded laterality?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "tract-and-laterality-map-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "functional-contributions", "name": "Functional contributions", "description": "Brain-stem participation in physiological regulation, arousal and cranial sensorimotor activity.", "rationale": "Functional interpretation requires named circuits and observations rather than a single global brain-stem status.", "layers": [ { "id": "autonomic-regulation-and-arousal", "name": "Autonomic regulation and arousal", "description": "Contributions 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the location of a brain stem, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a brain stem is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a brain stem is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a brain stem, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit 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"Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a brain stem, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a brain stem is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a brain stem, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a brain stem, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a brain stem is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": 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"description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does brain stem have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does brain stem 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"claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a brain stem is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a brain stem is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a brain stem, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a brain 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