Parts of the Brain

Cerebellum

Movement, balance, coordination, procedural memory

Pneumonic: walking a tight rope, balancing a bell

Medulla Oblongata/Brainstem

Vital, involuntary organs (Ex. Heart rate, blood pressure)

Pneumonic: Abu is vital to me

Cerebral Cortex

Outer portion of the brain:

Higher orders, thought processes, includes limbic system, lobes, corpus callosum

Corpus Callosum

Bundle of nerves that connects the two hemispheres of the brain

Amygdala

Emotions and fear

Hippocampus

Episodic and semantic memory

Hypothalamus

Reward/pleasure center, eating behaviors, link to the endocrine system, homeostasis

Thalamus

Relay center for all but smell

Pituitary Gland

Talks w/ endocrine system and hypothalamus, releases hormones

Occipital Lobe

VISION

Frontal Lobe

Decision-making, planning, judgment, movement, personality, language, executive function

Prefrontal Lobe

Executive function

Motor Cortex

Map of motor receptors, skeletal movement

Parietal Lobe

Sensations and touch

Somatosensory Cortex

Map of touch receptors

Temporal Lobe

Auditory, language, and facial recognition