psych brain parts

Left Hemisphere

Controls right ride of your body, verbal and language skills

right hemisphere

processes visual and spatial information

cerebellum

controls muscle tone and balamce, coordination of movement, procedural learning

medulla

controls involuntary actions, breathing, digestion, heart rate, and swallowing

pons

passes neural information form one brain region to another, REM sleep

RAS (Reticular information)

wakeful, alertness, reticular info, voluntary movement and eye movement, learning, emotion, cognition

Thalamus

-relays sensory information, receives sensory info

hypotholamus

control temp, water balance, hunger, sex drive, activate sympathetic nervous system, and endocrine

lateral and ventromedial hypotholamus

controls the amount you eat, when you feel hungry

amygdala

expression of anger, fear, frustration

hippocampus

processing and making new memories

frontal lobes

higher level thought and reasoning, working memory, making judgements, making plans

prefrontal cortex

executive decision making

motor cortex

planning, controlling, executing voluntary movement

broca’s area

language processing, if there is damage to the area that means you lose your ability to speak

occipital lobes

processes visual input

temporal lobes

auditory input, processing speech, appreciating music

wernickes area

understanding language, damage to this area means you cannot understand speech

parietal lobes

somato sensory information, temperature, pressure, texture, primary somatosensory cortex

what does an eeg measure

measures subtle changes in brain electrical activity

CAT scans=

cross sectional images

what test uses radioactive glucose to see how brains are working?

PET scans