brain anatomy

frontal lobe

executive function, planning, organizing, problem solving, behavioral control, personality

motor cortex

movement

sensory cortex

sensation

parietal lobe

perception, making sense of the world, arithmetic, spelling

cerebellum

coordination of posture, movement and balance

temporal lobe

memory, understanding, language

core regulators

thalamus, hypothalamus, pituitary gland, basal ganglia

core regulators function

sensory relay, autonomic control, motor coordination

limbic center

amygdala and hippocampus

limbic center function

emotion, memory, endcoding, stress response

vital trunk

pons, medulla, brainstem

vital trunk function

houses cranial nerves, controls fundamental vital reflexes

thalamus

brain's sensory switchboard; receives, integrates and directs sensory and motor impulses from the lower body to the sensory receiving areas in the cerebral cortex`

thalamus stroke

pure sensory stroke; contralateral sensroy loss of all modalities

hypothalamus

coordinates autonomic nervous system with endocrine function

temperature, circadian rhythm, fluid osmolality

pituatury gland

produces and releases hormones

basal ganglia

control voluntary muscle movement, maintain postural control and dopamine production

amygdala

emotional processing center

hippocampus

memory encoding, learning, spatial relations, regulation of corticosteroid production

brainstem

midbrain, pons, medulla

basic neurologic functions, vital reflexes, transmission between cerebral cortex and spinal cord

medulla

life sustaining reflexes: HR, coughing, BP, RR, vomiting