Brain Parts and Functions

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Brainstem

oldest and central core in the brain ,extension of spinal cord and responsible for automatic survival function(heartbeats).

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Medulla

Controls things like breathing, swallowing, heart/breathing, sneezing, ect. Damage is fatal

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Pons

Connects the brainstem with the cerebellum—>movement, facial expressions and breathing

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Cerebellum

-Aids in judgment of time, sound, texture discrimination and emotional control.

-Coordination of voluntary movement and life sustaining functions

-processing nonverbal learning and memory

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Basal Ganglia

-Planning/sequence of behavior

-Initiation and direction of movement(Smooth coordination of movements)

-Putting brakes on unnecessary movement

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Reticular Formation

-Regulates arousal(alertness)

-Sleep/wake

-controls consciousness

-pain perception

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Midbrain

-eye movement

-integrating sensory processing such as hearing/vision together

-Controlling simple movements with sensory info

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Forebrain

Largest and most complicated region of brain

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Thalamus

Act as relay station for incoming sensory information(except smell)—>

directs infoto the cerebral cortex

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Hypothalamus

-Controls anger

-Fight or Flight

-Feeding

-Sexual Drive

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Hippocampus

-Converts memory from short to long term

-Assembles memory information from other parts of the brain for recall

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Amygdala

-Causes anger and fear

-helps determine pleasurability

-help with self-preservation behaviors

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Septum

-Rageful behavior and hypersensitivity(anger,fear, pleasure ect)

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Corpus Callosum

-band of fibers that connected the 2 hemispheres of the cerebral cortex together

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Limbic System

to process and regulate emotion and memory while also dealing with sexual stimulation and learning

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Cingulate Gyrus

-Associates memories with smell and pain

-produces negative and positive feelings

-regulation of material behavior

-shifting of attention and cognitive flexibility

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Cerebral Hemispheres

the left hemisphere controls speech, comprehension, arithmetic, and writing. The right hemisphere controls creativity, spatial ability, artistic, and musical skills.

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Occipital Lobe

Primary visual cortex, controls all aspects of vision

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Parietal Lobe

Body position

-temperature

-taste

-touch/pain/pressure

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Temporal Lobe

-Hearing

-storing long term memories

-speech and language

-understanding

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Frontal Lobe (primary motor cortex)

-Movement

-judgement

-planning

-producing speech sounds

-emotional control

-personality

-temperment

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Brocas Area

Responsible for directing motor movement involved in speech

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Plasticity

The brain's ability to continuously change/repair/regenerate/restore itself due to use.

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Neurogenesis

formation of new neurons

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Wernicke’s Area

Left Temporal Lobe→language comprehension and expression

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Lateralization

certain functions are in only in 1 hemisphere

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Left Hemisphere

Speech,Grammar rules, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic(langauge)

Verbal memory(memory)

Language sounds(hearing)

words,letters(vision)

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Right Hemisphere

Geometry, Sense of direction, Distance, Mental rotation of shapes(spatial ability_

Emotional Tone of Speech(language)

Nonverbal memory(memory)

Non Language sounds(hearing)

Geometric patterns, Faces, Emotional expression(vision)

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