Psych

medulla

Breathing, vomiting, coughing

Cebebellum

balance

reticular formation

responsible for sleep and drowsiness

Thalamus

All sensory input expect for smell

The limbic system

deals with emotions and stores memories

Hipppocamus

Memory

amygdala

strong emotions

Hypothalamus

reward and pleasure center

cerebral cortex

Function areas

Frontal lobe

Speaking and muscle movement

Parietal Lobe

Sensory input for touch

Occipital lobe

Includes visual cortex,

temporal lobe

Includes auditory cortex and receives sound input

motor cortex

stimulates movement

Sensory cortex

Registers touch and stimulation

visual cortex

In the occipital and process vision

auditory cortex

processes sound

aphasia

impairment of language (damage to left hemisphere)

apraxia

inability to coordinate speaking

agnosia

Inability to visually recognize objects

Prosopagnosia

unable to recognize faces

acqurring psychopathy

damage to areas of the frontal lobe

corpus callosum

Neural fibers that connect the two haves of the brain